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. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079