Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754869Ab0GJMh1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:37:27 -0400 Received: from router-fw.net-space.pl ([89.174.63.77]:60247 "EHLO router-fw.net-space.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754799Ab0GJMh0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:37:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 14:36:52 +0200 From: Daniel Kiper To: James Harper Cc: Daniel Kiper , Andi Kleen , jeremy@goop.org, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: GSoC 2010 - Migration from memory ballooning tomemory hotplug in Xen Message-ID: <20100710123652.GA17617@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> References: <20100708194553.GA30124@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> <871vbdr4ey.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20100709173455.GD8696@router-fw-old.local.net-space.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1046 Lines: 23 On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 03:17:57PM +1000, James Harper wrote: > > 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. In 99.9% yes because it is normal way of configuring devices in Windows. However, to take final decision I must read some docs and do some tests. Daniel -- 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/