From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cooper Subject: Re: [OSSTEST PATCH] ts-windows-install: Bump RAM from 512M to 1700M Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 11:36:49 +0100 Message-ID: <55A78941.7040002@citrix.com> References: <1437042708-20126-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1ZFgXE-0007uY-CD for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2015 10:37:00 +0000 In-Reply-To: <1437042708-20126-1-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson , xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Cc: Wei Liu , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 16/07/15 11:31, Ian Jackson wrote: > Sadly we lack a proper infrastructure for handing guest memory size > and fitting it into the host. We don't currently even have in our > database the amount of RAM the host has. > > The recommended minimum for Windows is 2Gby. But we have (in the > Cambridge instance) some hosts which only have 4Gby. We allow 512 for > dom0. So set this to 1700 which should fit. > > Later we may want to do something more sophisticated, like adjusting > this to 2048 if the host has enough, or only running the test on > bigger hosts, or something. > > Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson > CC: Wei Liu 1.7 + 1.7 + 0.5 = 3.9 That is cutting it very narrow for Xen. How about 1.5 for windows instead? ~Andrew