[xenpreview-dev] maximum vm memory and cpus allowed through yast vm tool

[Jason Douglas]

For SLES 10, 4 vcpus is the maximum supported in a paravirtualized guest.  That is to say, that even though more will work, Novell Technical Support will only provide support for VMs with 4 vcpus or less.  Therefore, the tool was restricted to limit the selection to 4.

As for the memory, I believe the values were arbitrarily selected, but as you mentioned, the user is free to enter whatever value they desire.

>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at  1:45 PM, in message
<EF8D308BE33AF54D8934DF26520252D30350456A at USTR-EXCH5.na.uis.unisys.com>,
"Krysan, Susan" <KRYSANS at unisys.com> wrote: 
> When we use yast vm tool to add a virtual machine, the largest memory
> size that can be chosen from the drop- down menu is 1024MB and the
> largest number of CPUs is 4.  Is there a particular reason why these
> maximums were chosen?  I am able to click in the text field for the
> memory size and enter a size larger than 1024, but I can not do the same
> for the cpus.   
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> Thanks,
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> Sue Krysan
> 
> Linux Systems Group
> 
> Unisys Corporation
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