>>> Pasi Kärkkäinen 06/04/10 5:03 PM >>> >On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 08:19:15AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> Keith Coleman 19.02.10 01:03 >>> >> >On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 2:12 PM, George Dunlap >> > wrote: >> >> Yeah, the OSS tree doesn''t get the kind of regression testing it >> >> really needs at the moment. I was using the OSS balloon drivers when >> >> I implemented and submitted the PoD code last year. I didn''t have any >> >> trouble then, and I was definitely using up all of the memory. But I >> >> haven''t done any testing on OSS since then, basically. >> >> >> > >> >Is it expected that booting HVM guests with maxmem > memory is >> >unstable? In testing 3.4.3-rc2 (kernel 2.6.18 c/s 993) I can easily >> >crash the guest and occasionally the entire server. >> >> Crashing the guest is expected if the guest doesn''t have a fixed >> balloon driver (i.e. the mentioned c/s would need to be in the >> sources the pv drivers for the guest were built from). >> >> Crashing the host is certainly unacceptable - please provide logs >> thereof. >> > >Was this resolved? Someone was complaining recently that maxmem != memory >crashes his Xen host..I don ''t recall ever having seen logs of a host crash of this sort, so if this ever was the case and no-one else fixed it, I would believe it still to be an issue. Jan _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
Jan Beulich wrote:>> Was this resolved? Someone was complaining recently that maxmem != memory >> crashes his Xen host.. >> > > I don ''t recall ever having seen logs of a host crash of this sort, > so if this ever was the case and no-one else fixed it, I would > believe it still to be an issue. > >There have been a number of fixes to the PoD code, so it''s possible that it has been fixed. I''ll see if our testing team has time to add "Boot memory < maxmem w/o balloon driver" to our testing matrix and see if we can get a host crash. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 10:28:11AM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:> Jan Beulich wrote: >>> Was this resolved? Someone was complaining recently that maxmem != memory >>> crashes his Xen host.. >>> >> >> I don ''t recall ever having seen logs of a host crash of this sort, >> so if this ever was the case and no-one else fixed it, I would >> believe it still to be an issue. >> >> > There have been a number of fixes to the PoD code, so it''s possible that > it has been fixed. I''ll see if our testing team has time to add "Boot > memory < maxmem w/o balloon driver" to our testing matrix and see if we > can get a host crash. >Ok, good. There has been manu queries/problems about PoD lately, so it''s good to get that tested. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel