Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-16 Thread Andrew Cathrow
- Original Message - From: Sander Grendelman san...@grendelman.com To: Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 8:52:42 AM Subject: Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Michal Skrivanek

Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-16 Thread Doron Fediuck
- Original Message - From: Andrew Cathrow acath...@redhat.com To: Sander Grendelman san...@grendelman.com Cc: users@ovirt.org Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 2:05:00 PM Subject: Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm - Original Message - From: Sander Grendelman san

Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-13 Thread Michal Skrivanek
Too bad QEMU doesn't support it. So it's still a long way. Balloon should be able to cover most of the use cases. You have overcommit and can reserve only a part of RAM, then change the reserved amount which adds more RAM resources. OS still sees the same (maximum) size, but effectively it

Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-13 Thread Sander Grendelman
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Michal Skrivanek michal.skriva...@redhat.com wrote: Too bad QEMU doesn't support it. So it's still a long way. qemu/libvirt kind of supports it (at least in F19). In virt-manager you can define current and maximum memory allocation. The VM only sees the current

[Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-09 Thread Nathanaël Blanchet
Hello, Is hot add ram to a vm is supported by ovirt, or is it planned to be? -- Nathanaël Blanchet Supervision réseau Pôle exploitation et maintenance Département des systèmes d'information 227 avenue Professeur-Jean-Louis-Viala 34193 MONTPELLIER CEDEX 5 Tél. 33 (0)4 67 54 84 55 Fax 33

Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-09 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: Hello, Is hot add ram to a vm is supported by ovirt, or is it planned to be? Not at the moment, I'm afraid. For some use cases, the recomended approach is to start a VM with way-too-much ram, but inflate a big balloon in it.

Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-09 Thread Itamar Heim
On 12/09/2013 06:51 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: Hello, Is hot add ram to a vm is supported by ovirt, or is it planned to be? Not at the moment, I'm afraid. For some use cases, the recomended approach is to start a VM with

Re: [Users] hot add ram to a vm

2013-12-09 Thread Nathanaël Blanchet
Le 09/12/2013 19:32, Itamar Heim a écrit : On 12/09/2013 06:51 PM, Dan Kenigsberg wrote: On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:27:16PM +0100, Nathanaël Blanchet wrote: Hello, Is hot add ram to a vm is supported by ovirt, or is it planned to be? Not at the moment, I'm afraid. For some use cases, the