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From: Mick Jordan <Mick.Jordan@Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: Size limit on extra argument to xm create; RETRACT
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:00:27 -0700
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On 09/ 9/09 08:49 PM, Mick Jordan wrote:
> Experimentally there seems to be a 1024 byte limit on the size of the 
> extra parameter to xm create (shades of csh!).
>
> Before I dig in to the code, I'm thought I'd check if this a limit in 
> xm or a more fundamental limit in the Xen guest interface. I can 
> imagine a hard limit of a page in the latter case, but that would be a 
> lot better than 1024.
Ha, so funny, the problem was actually the csh limit. xm works fine when 
spawned from bash.