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From: Ben Guthro <ben@guthro.net>
Subject: Re: XL low memory
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 09:00:03 -0400
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On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Dominic Russell <GTA_doum@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With xl toolstack, is it possible to declare a low memory parameters, like
> we could with xend in the xend-config.sxp file, with the (dom0-min-mem)
> parameter?
>
> I did try to google this, but could only find information about the
> xend-config file, which xl does not read.
> I have a Dell server, on which I tested that the minimum it can go before
> crashing the kernel is 224mb, but the current minimum set in
> libxl_internal.h is only 128mb!  By the mean time, I changed the constant
> and recompiled 4.2.2.  To have a parameter would be easier :).

Hi,

You can do this with Xen command line parameters, at boot time.
See the first section of the following wiki page for reference:

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Best_Practices

Ben