Description of problem: Section 17.2.17 of the RHEL 5.0 Virtualization Guide contains an error. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL 5.0 Virtualization Guide Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Virtualization-en-US/ch17s02s17.html or 1. Download https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/en-US/Installation_Guide.pdf 2. Go to page 55 of the PDF (marked as page 47). Actual results: 17.2.17. Configuring VCPU Count You can use xm to modify a domain's VCPU count: xm vcpu-set [domain-id] [count] You must specify the [count] in megabytes. Note You cannot grow a domain's memory beyond the maximum amount you specified when you first created the domain. Expected results: 17.2.17. Configuring VCPU Count You can use xm to modify a domain's VCPU count: xm vcpu-set [domain-id] [count] Note The new count cannot exceed the amount you specified when you first created the domain. Additional info: Later versions of the Virtualization Guide were completely rewritten and do not have this error.
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This is a fix for 5.0 right? That should be a simple backport of the present guide while verifying the content still works. I guess I'm devel ack on this. ACK granted.
STATUS: Moved version to 5.3 Chris if this has been done in 5.1-5.2 timeframes then I recommend use the 5.3 version as the canonical version and deprecate the 5.0-5.2 versions completely.
This is fixed in all newer versions. The xm command is not longer recommended and the equivalent of this function using the virsh command is updated to reflect this limitation.