[CentOS] Xen Install
John
jses27 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 29 23:22:03 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 13:21 +0100, Daniel de Kok wrote:
> 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
Thanks for the help on that Daniel.
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