On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:33 +0100, Shahzad Chohan wrote: > xm create -c rawhide Before running that, run something like: xm balloon 0 128 That basically balloons down memory for the host OS (dom0) to 128MB of ram. What happens with Xen nowadays is that it allocates full amounts of system ram to the dom0, and this means it can't allocate anything at all for the guest 128 is just an arbritary number. It can be higher or lower depending on your system ram and how much you want to give the guest os > Using config file "/etc/xen/rawhide". > Error: Error creating domain: (12, 'Cannot allocate memory') Said error message will disappear if you balloon down the memory then run xm create -c rawhide > Here's my config files: > > /etc/xen/rawhide: > kernel ="/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1225_FC4xenU" > memory = 9 You'll want more than 9MB of RAM for the guest. Really > I'm running the following kernel: > 2.6.11-1.1225_FC4xen0 SMP While Xen is enabled there, there are console issues I think that will somehow not allow you to get to a login console (or at least that was the case for me) -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/ "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi