Re: rebooting a domU

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:50:09PM +1100, Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> >IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/kern/xen/balloon'
> 
> I mildly understand the use of 'balloon' but have never had it exist for 
> me. When I have received this error it is usually because I have 
> assigned more memory to the domu than is available at that point in time.
> 
> In some instances I was able to manually load the domu with the 
> problematic amount of memory assigned but it would not start 
> automatically on boot nor on a restart.
> 
> Whether this has ever worked, I don't know. I just reduced my memory by 
> a few MB and forgot about it.

Yes, there is no baloon driver on NetBSD yet. What I suspect happens
in this case is that on reboot, the new domain tries to start before the
old one has released all memory, so there's not enough memory for the new
domain.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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