From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xensource.com,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: xl.cfg, memory options clarification
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 15:59:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120309145958.GA14188@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5A179F.8060608@citrix.com>
On Fri, Mar 09, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> I though "memory" is the amount of RAM that a guest will have. So qemu
> upstream will have this value as an amount of RAM and when qemu ask for the
> videoram, ...
maxmem= is the amount of memory the guest OS thinks it has, the one it
has to configure itself for. Think of it as a virtual memory stick with
capacity n GiB.
memory= is the amount of memory the balloon driver in the guest OS is
supposed to leave for the guest OS.
Olaf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-09 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-09 14:45 xl.cfg, memory options clarification Anthony PERARD
2012-03-09 14:59 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2012-03-09 16:55 ` Ian Campbell
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