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 14:24:32 -0600 Message-ID: <423F2D80.5030808@us.ibm.com> References: <423E479D.3050809@diku.dk> <423E5D19.7050903@us.ibm.com> <423E737B.4090105@diku.dk> <423EE7BA.2040506@us.ibm.com> <423F2B44.7040500@diku.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <423F2B44.7040500@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: > >> 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. > > > I guess this is more interesting when running a bunch of headless > nodes. How little memory can your dom0 survive on? Hard to say. It could be tuned a lot more than it is (especially wrt to the kernel config). With a standard Xen kernel I can balloon down to 12MB and things seem ok. Ballooning down to 8MB leads to the OOM killer kicking in. I reckon 16MB is probably a reasonable foot print to shoot for in the future. My goal is to, at some point, build an LVM-aware ramdisk that's under 4MB with a full Xen management toolset on it. 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