Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751213Ab0GJFrR (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:47:17 -0400 Received: from smtp1.bendigoit.com.au ([203.16.224.4]:37883 "EHLO smtp1.bendigoit.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751071Ab0GJFrQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:47:16 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1738 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:47:16 EDT Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] Re: GSoC 2010 - Migration from memory ballooning tomemory hotplug in Xen Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:17:57 +1000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20100709173455.GD8696@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [Xen-devel] Re: GSoC 2010 - Migration from memory ballooning tomemory hotplug in Xen thread-index: AcsfjSRU8KtxIB9YSHqKaey5WGtJcwAYfofA References: <20100708194553.GA30124@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> <871vbdr4ey.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20100709173455.GD8696@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> From: "James Harper" To: "Daniel Kiper" Cc: "Andi Kleen" , , , X-Really-From-Bendigo-IT: magichashvalue Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 820 Lines: 21 > > On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 08:58:01AM +1000, James Harper wrote: > > > While you can do that the value is not very large because you > > > could just start the guests with more memory, but ballooned in > > > the first place (so that they don't actually use it) > > > > I think hotplug is a better method for adding memory for Windows. > > Maybe in the future I write somthing for Windows... > For Windows, I believe you would need to emulate actual hotplug of memory like a physical machine, using ACPI. It's only supported on Enterprise versions of Windows too. James -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/