Subject: xenpaging: (sparse) documenation Write up some sparse documentation about xenpaging usage. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering --- docs/misc/xenpaging.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) Index: xen-4.0.2-testing/docs/misc/xenpaging.txt =================================================================== --- /dev/null +++ xen-4.0.2-testing/docs/misc/xenpaging.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +Warning: + +The xenpaging code is new and not fully debugged. +Usage of xenpaging can crash Xen or cause severe data corruption in the +guest memory and its filesystems! + +Description: + +xenpaging writes memory pages of a given guest to a file and moves the +pages back to the pool of available memory. Once the guests wants to +access the paged-out memory, the page is read from disk and placed into +memory. This allows the sum of all running guests to use more memory +than physically available on the host. + +Usage: + +Once the guest is running, run xenpaging with the guest_id and the +number of pages to page-out: + + chdir /var/lib/xen/xenpaging + xenpaging + +To obtain the guest_id, run 'xm list'. +xenpaging will write the pagefile to the current directory. +Example with 128MB pagefile on guest 1: + + xenpaging 1 32768 + +Caution: stopping xenpaging manually will cause the guest to stall or +crash because the paged-out memory is not written back into the guest! + +After a reboot of a guest, its guest_id changes, the current xenpaging +binary has no target anymore. To automate restarting of xenpaging after +guest reboot, specify the number if pages in the guest configuration +file /etc/xen/vm/: + +xenpaging=32768 + +Redo the guest with 'xm create /etc/xen/vm/' to activate the +changes. + + +Todo: +- implement stopping of xenpaging +- implement live migration + + +# vim: tw=72