[CentOS] Xen Install
Daniel de Kok
me at danieldk.org
Sat Mar 29 12:21:40 UTC 2008
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:36 AM, John <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/InstallingCentOSDomU In reading that
> How To, will using the GUI Configuration Tools create all the files need
> to run a "DomU". Will I have manual edit any configuration files?
Yes, you can use virt-manager to do this.
> Next question is the machine has 256MBs of ram and Dom0 uses about
> 225MBs of it. Is that a bit much? VmWare Server does not use that much
> ram. See #top Below....With out running the Xen Kernel it has no where
> near the ram usage as with the Xen one. Is that expected?
dom0 takes the memory it can use, but if you create a domU, Xen will
use "ballooning" to reduce the amount of memory allocated to dom0. You
can set the minimum of dom0 memory in /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp by
tweaking the dom0-min-mem option.
Be aware that the hypervisor also takes a chunk of memory, so you may
want to add more memory to get a useful setup.
Take care,
Daniel
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