Re: Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
James, After changing settings for reg.exe and re-capturing the Win7 image I was able to get smaller pagefile.sys file for new reservations. Thank you for the help. -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Ph

Re: Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-29 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
James, Thank you for the hint. I will tweak settings in enable_pagefile() to get right results... -- Dmitri Chebotarov Virtual Computing Lab Systems Engineer, TSD - Ent Servers & Messaging 223 Aquia Building, Ffx, MSN: 1B5 Phone: (703) 993-6175 Fax: (703) 993-3404 On Wednesday, March 28, 201

Re: Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-28 Thread James O'Dell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What I believe is happening is during the image creation VCL disables the pagefile, reboots, and then removes the pagefile. This makes for a smaller image file. Then, during the image provisioning, the pagefile is re-enabled using the default settings

Re: Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
James Yes, I have changed the setting for pagefile. But it resets to default after I capture image and make reservation. I've also commented disable_pagefile() in Windows.pm (and restarted vcld), but it doesn't help. New image still has default pagefile setting. Is there another place in the

Re: Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-28 Thread James O'Dell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you tried disabling/reducing the page file before making the image? > Control Panel > > System and Security > > System > > Click to open System. > > In the left pane, click Advanced system settings. If you are prompted for an > administrato

Wndows pagefile.sys settings

2012-03-28 Thread Dmitri Chebotarov
Hi, All I'm using Windows 7 Ent image with VCL/xCAT on a blade with 48GB of memory. Before capturing the image I set page file to 2GB, once capture is done, the new reservation ends up with 48GB page file. This leave little space left to install new applications. I found that Windows.pm calls