[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#414040: kernel: xen_net: Memory squeeze in netback driver.

[Nate Carlson]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Bob Tanner wrote:
> Package: xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-amd64
> Version: 3.0.3-0-2
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> This bug looks to be tracked in upstream:
>
> http://bugzilla.xensource.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=762
>
> Mailing list discussion here:
>
> http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-bugs/2006-11/msg00030.html

IIRC, a workaround is to set a 'dom0_mem' parameter on bootup, so it 
doesn't have to shrink dom0's memory to start the guest domains.

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