Bug 219724 - [RHEL5] Automatically balloon down dom0 when ballooning up a domU
Summary: [RHEL5] Automatically balloon down dom0 when ballooning up a domU
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: xen
Version: 5.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Xen Maintainance List
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: 545088 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: 219727
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Reported: 2006-12-14 22:37 UTC by Chris Lalancette
Modified: 2009-12-08 14:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-10-14 15:56:21 UTC
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Description Chris Lalancette 2006-12-14 22:37:36 UTC
Description of problem:
Now that domain ballooning works from a kernel/hypervisor perspective, it would
be nice if the tools were a little more accomodating for users.  In particular,
if you start a domain with the following in the config file:

maxmem = "512"
memory = "300"

you can balloon up the domU, but *only* if you first balloon down dom0
sufficiently.  You can successfully accomplish the balloon by running:

xm mem-set Domain-0 1024 (or whatever, freeing up enough memory from dom0)
xm mem-set domU 500

It would be nice if xm either did this automatically, or had a flag to do this
automatically, i.e. just running

xm mem-set domU 500

would balloon down dom0 (if it could), and balloon up the domain.

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2007-03-21 23:17:32 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2007-09-07 19:57:59 UTC
This request was previously evaluated by Red Hat Product Management
for inclusion in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, but
Red Hat was unable to resolve it in time.  This request will be
reviewed for a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

Comment 3 Chris Lalancette 2008-10-14 15:56:21 UTC
No customers have asked for this, and it was just a "nice to have" anyway, so I'm going to close this out.  If customers ask for it, we can re-open it in the future.

Chris Lalancette

Comment 4 Yufang Zhang 2009-12-08 14:35:43 UTC
*** Bug 545088 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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