[virt-tools-list] python virt-install does not support hugepages

James M Leddy james.leddy at redhat.com
Wed Oct 20 20:56:49 UTC 2010


On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:18:44PM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> We're using the library that backs virt-install in order to create
> guests, and we've found that you have to specify that you're going to
> use hugepages on the QEMU cmdline, there's support in the libvirt XML
> format to say this, however, there's no support in python-virtinst for
> it.
> 
> Note that we're not lucky enough (at this point) to be using a kernel
> with transparent hugepages, so manually specifying them on the kernel
> command line and in the QEMU cmdline.

Jon, What are the specific API calls you're using?

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James M. Leddy
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Red Hat Inc.




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