Re: One off question: Hot vertical scaling of a KVM?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



"ROZUMNY, VICTOR" <vr9723@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello-
>
> Your site states that one off questions might could be answered via
> email so here I am.
>
> I have limited knowledge of KVM, but it is my understanding that in
> order to vertically scale RAM for a KVM the guest needs to be shut
> down, resized, and rebooted, resulting in a 5-10 minute interruption
> of service.
What's vertical scaling ? You mean, increase the amount of memory
the guest sees ? You could use Qemu memory hotplug I think but that
requires that the guest has been booted with enough number of
"dimm" slots.

Bandan

> Is this true and if so do you know of any efforts to change this
> behavior?
>
> Thank you!
>
> v.
>
> Vic Rozumny | Principal Technical Architect AIC - AT&T Integrated
> Cloud | Complex Engineering
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html



[Index of Archives]     [KVM ARM]     [KVM ia64]     [KVM ppc]     [Virtualization Tools]     [Spice Development]     [Libvirt]     [Libvirt Users]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Questions]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]
  Powered by Linux