docs: update xenpaging.txt

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Committed-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
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@@ -12,37 +12,34 @@ access the paged-out memory, the page is read from disk and placed into
memory. This allows the sum of all running guests to use more memory
than physically available on the host.
Requirements:
xenpaging relies on Intel EPT or AMD RVI, other hardware is not
supported. Only HVM guests are supported. The dom0 kernel needs
paging-aware backend drivers to handle paged granttable entries.
Currently only dom0 kernels based on classic Xen Linux support this
functionality.
Usage:
Once the guest is running, run xenpaging with the guest_id and the
number of pages to page-out:
Up to now xenpaging is not integrated into libxl/xend, so it has to be
started manually for each guest.
chdir /var/lib/xen/xenpaging
xenpaging <guest_id> <number_of_pages>
Once the guest is running, run xenpaging with the guest_id and the path
to the pagefile:
To obtain the guest_id, run 'xm list'.
xenpaging will write the pagefile to the current directory.
Example with 128MB pagefile on guest 1:
/usr/lib/xen/bin/xenpaging -f /path/to/page_file -d dom_id &
xenpaging 1 32768
Once xenpaging runs it needs a memory target, which is the memory
footprint of the guest. This value (in KiB) must be written manually to
xenstore. The following example sets the target to 512MB:
Caution: stopping xenpaging manually will cause the guest to stall or
crash because the paged-out memory is not written back into the guest!
After a reboot of a guest, its guest_id changes, the current xenpaging
binary has no target anymore. To automate restarting of xenpaging after
guest reboot, specify the number if pages in the guest configuration
file /etc/xen/vm/<guest_name>:
xenpaging=32768
Redo the guest with 'xm create /etc/xen/vm/<guest_name>' to activate the
changes.
xenstore-write /local/domain/<dom_id>/memory/target-tot_pages $((1024*512))
Now xenpaging tries to page-out as many pages to keep the overall memory
footprint of the guest at 512MB.
Todo:
- implement stopping of xenpaging
- implement/test live migration
- integrate xenpaging into libxl
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