On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:37:08AM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:11:52AM +0200, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > > On 4.3.2011 10.52, Simon Matter wrote: > > > I don't know if it's recommended that way but at least it works fine. > > > > Hm, that is kind of the only important thing. :-) > > > > If it is not recommended, there have to be better reasons for that than > > mere tidiness. > > > > Dom0 should be reserved only for management toolstack and minimal amount > of services (storage/network backends). > > Actually dom0 is a *VM* aswell (see "xm list"), although it has more direct > access to the hardware and thus to storage. > > You're probably limited by the disk IOPS anyway, so it shouldn't > matter that much if you run the service in dom0 or in domU, > so go for domU, since that's the more safe bet. > Oh, you should also limit and dedicate fixed amount of memory for dom0, say, 768 MB, or whatever you need there. http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenBestPractices -- Pasi