From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: uclibc-dom0/xen 2.0.5 trivia Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:26:50 -0600 Message-ID: <423EE7BA.2040506@us.ibm.com> References: <423E479D.3050809@diku.dk> <423E5D19.7050903@us.ibm.com> <423E737B.4090105@diku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <423E737B.4090105@diku.dk> Sender: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: xen-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Jacob Gorm Hansen Cc: xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > libxc builds quite fine against uClibc as does vm-tools. I use it > > busybox imagine (with uClibc) quite frequently for testing and > development. > > Did you try how small you could make dom0 by any chance? root@codemonkey.ws rh# df /xen/rockhopper.img 3963 1666 2093 45% /xen/rh So a bit over 1.5MB. I must admit, while the prospect of a super-small dom0 is quite appealing, using a ramdisk just hasn't proved to be all that useful. The thing that always comes back to bite me too is that I cannot get X to start in a domU. If I could get that to work it might be practical. Obviously, the key to getting things to build so small is to use busybox and uClibc but another important tip is to be very careful about what goes in /dev. /dev can eat a ton of space in certain file systems. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Jacob > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click