MHR wrote:
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Ruslan Sivak <russ@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I guess it has something to do with the ballooning driver for Dom0. It
looks like I just tried to allocation too much memory to DomU and the box
went down hard. I think there's a setting in xen to the min amount of
memory to go down to, but I'm not sure why Dom0 is using 600mb of RAM. Is
there a mini installation of CentOS that I can do that would use less RAM?
I've already unchecked all the boxes when installing CentOS. I would like
Dom0 to be as small as possible, both due to RAM usage and from a security
perspective.
I've not familiarized myself with xen yet, but have you considered
VMware Server? I haven't had any serious problems with it, and none
at all since v1.0.5 came out (1.0.6 is the current one). Works
nicely, stays within its memory allocation, and top et al work as
you'd expect them to.
HTH
mhr
_______________________________________________
Are you talking about VMware Server 1? Isn't there an issue with only
being able to allocate 3.4GB of ram or something to that point? I guess
it wouldn't be an issue since I only have 8GB of ram on this box, unless
I wanted to allocate a lot of ram to a single process.
I, too, like VMWare Server 1 and have been using it in production under
windows. Does it support paravirtualization at all?
I treid, VMWare server 2 beta, and they made it pretty much unusable.
The web interface isn't that great, and there is no way to tell it to
use an LVM volume. Hopefully they will improve it in the future.
It's too bad that you can't use Xen and VMWare on the same box. I
could've ran Windows stuff in VMWare and Linux stuff paravirtualized in
Xen.
Russ
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
