[xen-tools-discuss] issues with xen-tools 4.2.1 setting value of ram in guest config higher then assigned in xen-tools config

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

currently going through all the not yet answered bug reports on the
list since the last release.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:05:41PM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
> Hey guys im having an issue with xen-tools 4.2.1 that when i create
> a guest with 2gb of ram or more it seems that the scripts set the
> guest config to have a larger amount of ram then i originally
> specified in the xen-tools config any ideas?
[...]
> size   = 100Gb      # Disk image size.
> memory = 2048Gb    # Memory size
               ^
> swap   = 4096Mb    # Swap size
[...]
> now in the guest configuration file it shows the following
> 
> memory      = '2097152'
> 
> changing the value above fixes the problem but is this a known bug
> with 4.2.1?

No bug in my opinion, at least not in xen-tools. Works as expected for me. :-)

2048 * 1024 is 2097152

You didn't really specify 2 Gigabytes, you specified 2048 Gigabytes
(instead of Megabytes) of RAM which results in 2 Terabytes of RAM.

HTH.

		Kind regards, Axel
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