On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 19:22:32 -0700, "Joe Linoff" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
> 
> Cobbler is an awesome tool! Thank you.
> 
> I would like to set up my VM's with their maximum memory different than
> their set memory. This is because they may migrate to a hypervisor with
> more RAM at some time in the future and I would like to avoid changing
> them.
> 
> On the command line I would use commands like "xm mem-set ..." and "xm
> mem-max ...".
> 
> In the cobbler GUI there only appears to be one setting for virtual
> memory which sets both.
> 
> How can I set both max and set memory in cobbler/koan? 
> 
> If that is not possible, can you suggest a way to do it before the VM
> provisioned?
> 
> Perhaps something like this would work on hypervisor assuming the
> vm-0103 was defined in cobbler with 4096MB of RAM?
> 
>     Dom0# koan --virt --nogfx --system vm-0103
>     Dom0# xm mem-set vm-0103 2048   # use half the RAM for now
>     Dom0# virsh start vm-0103

It all sounds possible. However, it would take a change to cobbler to
add the new field (I would actually add the max mem field) and then to
koan to make use of it.

-- 
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME

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