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Dale 06:25, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

There isn't any guest configuration in /etc/xen since F8 or F7. Memory for guest can be set in libvirt[1]

  • Dump XML config if 'virsh edit' is not available (i.e. on F8 libvirt-0.4.4)
virsh shutdown f11
virsh dumpxml f11 > f11.xml
  • Add currentMemory parameter which defines minimum memory given to guest at boot.
<memory>1048576</memory>
<currentMemory>524288</currentMemory>
  • Enact this guest config in Xen via libvirt.
virsh define f11.xml
virsh start f11
  • See that free -m in guest now reports 519 total.

Actually, I think I may be confused about the meaning of currentMemory as I could balloon down from 519 and back up to it, but could not go above the value of currentMemory. [2]

  1. ↑ http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html#elementsResources
  2. ↑ User:Dale/Test_Day:2009-05-07_Virtualization:XenDomU#Memory_Ballooning
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