The docs assumed the command works always for QEMU and other hypervisors. Unfortunately until qemu will add memory hotplug this can't be done. Fix the docs to mention this limitation. --- tools/virsh.pod | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod index b5e632e..07e7c24 100644 --- a/tools/virsh.pod +++ b/tools/virsh.pod @@ -1469,23 +1469,24 @@ paravirtualized or running the PV balloon driver. =item B<setmaxmem> I<domain> B<size> [[I<--config>] [I<--live>] | [I<--current>]] Change the maximum memory allocation limit for a guest domain. If I<--live> is specified, affect a running guest. If I<--config> is specified, affect the next boot of a persistent guest. If I<--current> is specified, affect the current guest state. Both I<--live> and I<--config> flags may be given, but I<--current> is exclusive. If no flag is specified, behavior is different depending on hypervisor. -This command works for at least the Xen, QEMU/KVM and vSphere/ESX hypervisors. +Some hypervisors such as QEMU/KVM don't support live changes (especially +increasing) of the maximum memory limit. I<size> is a scaled integer (see B<NOTES> above); it defaults to kibibytes (blocks of 1024 bytes) unless you provide a suffix (and the older option name I<--kilobytes> is available as a deprecated synonym) . Libvirt rounds up to the nearest kibibyte. Some hypervisors require a larger granularity than KiB, and requests that are not an even multiple will be rounded up. For example, vSphere/ESX rounds the parameter up to mebibytes (1024 kibibytes). =item B<memtune> I<domain> [I<--hard-limit> B<size>] [I<--soft-limit> B<size>] [I<--swap-hard-limit> B<size>] [I<--min-guarantee> B<size>] [[I<--config>] [I<--live>] | [I<--current>]] -- 1.8.1.5