On 24/06/2008, at 9:08 AM, Luke S Crawford wrote: > We were discussing memory limits of the free (as in beer) closed > source > citrix xensource product- limits are added to the free product in > order > to encourage people to upgrade to the more expensive products. > > These limits don't exist in the open-source xen product, which is what > the centos/Xen stuff is based on. > > http://tx.downloads.xensource.com/downloads/docs/user/#SECTION01130000000000000000 > > I've personally run CentOS x86_64 5.1 boxes with north of 16G ram- > there is nothing I am aware of that would stop you from putting as > much > ram as you want in a particular DomU. > > You will be needing PAE, but that is default for CentOS i386/xen, so > it > should Just Work. make sure you install the libc6-xen package (should > be installed as a dependency.) The usual PAE limits apply. > > I'm typing this message in emacs running on a DomU hosted on an i386/ > PAE box > with 6G ram running CentOS5.1/xen. Hi Luke, Thanks for the confirmation; this is what I had understood but some of the prior discussion scared me. :) Regards, Tom