Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-07-05 Thread PGNet Dev
Reading @ How to know if the balloon driver is running http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/xen/users/315064#315064 "... IIRC the core balloon driver is always present when Xen is enabled and so the kernel will respond to requests from the host/toolstack to change

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-07-05 Thread George Dunlap
On 04/07/16 15:58, PGNet Dev wrote: > On 07/04/2016 04:22 AM, George Dunlap wrote: >> Thanks for your persistence. :-) > > I appreciate the reply :-) > >> It's likely that this is related to a known problem with the interface >> between the balloon driver and the toolstack. The warning itself is

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-07-04 Thread PGNet Dev
On 07/04/2016 04:22 AM, George Dunlap wrote: Thanks for your persistence. :-) I appreciate the reply :-) It's likely that this is related to a known problem with the interface between the balloon driver and the toolstack. The warning itself is benign: it simply means that the balloon driver

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-07-04 Thread George Dunlap
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 5:27 PM, PGNet Dev wrote: > In summary, there's a problem > > An indication of the guest trying to allocate more memory that the > host admin has allowed. > > that's filling logs with 10s of thousands of redundant log entries, with a > suspicion that it's 'balloonin

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread PGNet Dev
In summary, there's a problem An indication of the guest trying to allocate more memory that the host admin has allowed. that's filling logs with 10s of thousands of redundant log entries, with a suspicion that it's 'ballooning' issue in the guest Perhaps something wrong in the gue

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 29.06.16 at 17:38, wrote: > On 06/29/2016 07:17 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> I don't think a guest would itself issue any relevant messages. > > You mentioned ballooning in the guest. The doc I found addressed > ballooning, in the guest. > > If not that, then what output, with specificity,

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread PGNet Dev
On 06/29/2016 07:17 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: I don't think a guest would itself issue any relevant messages. You mentioned ballooning in the guest. The doc I found addressed ballooning, in the guest. If not that, then what output, with specificity, would be helpful in troubleshooting this ?

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 29.06.16 at 14:58, wrote: > On 06/29/2016 03:07 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >>> What needs to be fixed, or if of no concern, can these messages be silenced? >> >> Perhaps something wrong in the guest's balloon driver. > > I'm seeing these @host log-entries for Ubuntu, Arch & Opensuse guests. >

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread PGNet Dev
fyi, per Verify Xen Project PVHVM drivers are working in the Linux HVM guest kernel http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Linux_PV_on_HVM_drivers "Run "dmesg | egrep -i 'xen|front'" in the HVM guest VM." with Guest cmd line, ... systemd.log_level=debug systemd.log_target=

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread PGNet Dev
On 06/29/2016 03:07 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: What are these 'Over-allocation' messages? An indication of the guest trying to allocate more memory that the host admin has allowed. currently, each guest has allocated maxmem = 2048 memory = 2048 What needs to be fixed, or if of no concern,

Re: [Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-29 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 29.06.16 at 02:06, wrote: > What are these 'Over-allocation' messages? An indication of the guest trying to allocate more memory that the host admin has allowed. > What needs to be fixed, or if of no concern, can these messages be silenced? Perhaps something wrong in the guest's balloon

[Xen-devel] repeating 'd1v0 Over-allocation for domain 1' messages in xen 4.7 Host logs on PVHVM Guest launch

2016-06-28 Thread PGNet Dev
(relo'd from user list) I've launched an Ubuntu PVHVM guest, on a Xen 4.7 host cat guest1.cfg name = 'guest1' builder = 'hvm' xen_platform_pci = 1 device_model_version = 'qemu-xen' bios = 'ovmf'