Re: How to enable memory ballooning in KVM

2009-08-16 Thread Zhang Qian
Any help will be really appeciated. Regards, Qian 2009/8/13 Zhang Qian : > Hi, > > It seems that KVM has supported memory ballooning since KVM-75, can > you please tell me how to enable it? > Another question is, the kernel version of my RHEL 5.3 box is > 2.6.18-128.el5,

How to enable memory ballooning in KVM

2009-08-12 Thread Zhang Qian
Hi, It seems that KVM has supported memory ballooning since KVM-75, can you please tell me how to enable it? Another question is, the kernel version of my RHEL 5.3 box is 2.6.18-128.el5, can I enable this feature with this kernel? Or should I update my kernel to later version? Regards, Qian --

How much physical memory can be used to run domains in a KVM machine?

2009-07-16 Thread Zhang Qian
Hi, I have a KVM box which has 4GB physical memory totally, I'd like to know how much I can use to run my domains, and how much will be reserved by hypervisor(KVM) itself? Thanks! Regards, Qian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord..

Domain can not be rebooted and shut down

2009-07-07 Thread Zhang Qian
Hi, I created a VM (no guest OS installed yet) in my KVM box, and I can run it normally. But I found I can not reboot and shut down it by virt-manager, only force shutdown works. "Error shutting down domain: this function is not supported by the hypervisor: virDomainReboot" Any suggestions? Than

Dose KVM support setting scheduler parameters for a domain

2009-07-07 Thread Zhang Qian
Hi, I'd like to know if virDomainSetSchedulerParameters() works for KVM domain, I want to set CPU weight for a KVM domain, is it possible? Thanks a lot! Regards, Qian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majo

VM config file

2009-07-01 Thread Zhang Qian
Hi, I'd like to know if there is a configuration file for each KVM virtual machine? I can define a domain by "virsh define" command, but where the configuraiton parameters are persisted for the VM? Thanks in advance! Regards, Qian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kv

Does KVM support communication between hypervisor node and guest OS?

2009-07-01 Thread Zhang Qian
Hi, I'd like to know if there is a way to communicate the VM's guest OS from the hypervisor node which hosts the VM. As you know, Xen provide xenstore command to do it, I can use it to pass some parameters into guest OS, is there a similar way in KVM? Thanks in advance! Regards, Qian -- To unsu