[ovirt-users] Memory hot plug

[Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto]

Hello Eduardo,

On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 3:17 PM, Eduardo Mayoral <emayoral at arsys.es> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>     I recently tried to hot plug some memory on a VM running CentOS 6.9 with
> ovirt-guest-tools installed.
>
>     oVirt version is 4.2.1.6-1.el7.centos
>
>     I was careful to increment a multiple of 256 MB as specified in
> https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/virt/hot-plug-memory/
> (4 GB -> 6 GB , maximum memory configured for the VM was 8 GB)
>
>     However the VM was marked as with a pending change for next reboot. Am I
> missing some non-default configuration requiered for memory hot-plug to
> work?


No, you're not. Now the vm is seeing the base memory (4GB) you were
seeing at boot, plus additional memory (2GB added). Next time you'll
boot the vm, the system will see a single block of 6 GB.

That's the difference.

Luca

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Luca 'remix_tj' Lorenzetto, http://www.remixtj.net , <lorenzetto.luca at gmail.com>