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From: Mike Latimer <mlatimer@suse.com>
Subject: Re: freemem-slack and large memory environments
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2015 15:49:45 -0700
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On Monday, March 02, 2015 06:04:11 AM Jan Beulich wrote:
> > Of course users could just use dom0_mem and get down with it.
> 
> I don't think we should make this a requirement for correct
> operation.

Exactly. I think from a best practices perspective, dom0_mem is still the 
recommended approach. It just does not seem right to require that (or to 
expect the first domU startup to fail without it).

Thanks,
Mike