From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: PoD operation question Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:44:15 +0000 Message-ID: References: <4B5D78BD020000780002BB6B@vpn.id2.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4B5D78BD020000780002BB6B@vpn.id2.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jan Beulich Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Oh I didn't realise you meant startup scripts within the guest... No, I believe it works via xenstore, picked up by balloon driver when it first loads. -- Keir On 25/01/2010 09:55, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > Your two sentences seem contradictory to me: If it gets handled via > xenstore, then the init scripts shouldn't matter, and the ballooning > should start as soon as the driver loads (since - iirc - watches fire once > when being registered). > > Jan > >>>> Keir Fraser 25.01.10 10:21 >>> > I believe so yes. The lower memory_target will be written to xenstore at > domain creation, for balloon driver to retrieve and act on when it loads. > > -- Keir > > On 25/01/2010 08:21, "Jan Beulich" wrote: > >> With the balloon driver itself not doing anything special in HVM when >> getting loaded, where does the initial ballooning down get initiated? Is >> this something the system startup scripts are expected to perform? >> >> Thanks, Jan >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xen-devel mailing list >> Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com >> http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel > > >