[libvirt] save-image-edit fails to change the memory configuration of the image

[Shivaprasad bhat]

Thanks Jirka.

Regards,
Shiva

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:43:28 +0530, Shivaprasad bhat wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see the below error when i change the memory.
>>
>> virsh save-image-edit /MANAS/rhel7VM1-running-save2 --running
>> error: unsupported configuration: Target domain max memory 4194304
>> does not match source 2097152
>> Failed. Try again? [y,n,f,?]: n
>> error: unsupported configuration: Target domain max memory 4194304
>> does not match source 2097152
>>
>> Any idea why is this disallowed ?
>
> You can only change parameters that don't change guest ABI. Changing
> maximum memory changes this ABI (it changes what hardware the guest OS
> sees). Not to mention that you can't increase max memory for a running
> domain anyway as memory hotplug is not implemented yet.
>
> Jirka