[libvirt] [RFC] memory settings interface for containers

Maxim Nestratov mnestratov at virtuozzo.com
Thu Jan 14 13:14:49 UTC 2016


14.01.2016 16:01, Daniel P. Berrange пишет:

[snip]
> I agree we should be more explicit about this all in the docs. For
> initial XML config, we should just raise an error if both
> <memory> and <currentMemory> are present and have different values,
> or possibly just clamp <currentMemory> to match <memory>.
Hmm. And what if a user wants a VM to be started with inflated balloon 
and be
able to deflate it later to add some memory to the VM in runtime?
If libvirt raised an error in case <memory> and <currentMemory> are present
and different a user wouldn't have such a possibility.

>
> In virDomainSetMemoryFlags() we should document that with container
> based virt, you cannot change the CURRENT_MEMORY setting, and with
> machine based virt you cannot change the MAX_MEMORY setting but
> containers should allow it.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel





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