T> basically i want to know that is xend manipulate the xenstore to
T> change the VM's memory or there any other mechanism which dom0
T> follows.
That is quite offtopic for this list. I suggest you go ask on
xen-devel.
T> If ballooning of memory happens through xend, it means two paths which
T> i am not sure how it happens.
T> 1. Xenstore shared memory page and event channel is mapped to dom0
T> memory area. Now xend enamurate all the VM's in xenstore thorough xen
T> bus. Now change the balloon watch node for the concern domain, i.e
T> /local/domain/domaid/memory/target <value>
T> 2. Instead of using the xen bus interface, xend directly uses the
T> xenstore API (i.e. xenstore-write) to manipulate the xenstore node.
I don't really see how these are different, but yes, xend writes to
the xenstore node to set the memory target.
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Dan Smith
IBM Linux Technology Center
Open Hypervisor Team
email: danms(a)us.ibm.com