<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><p>Hi Anil,</p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have checked on the code and it looks it is not possible to enable this feature for the guest. We are running kvm through libvirt and it support this option: http://libvirt.org/formatdomain.html</span></p><p>It could be an interesting feature. may be by an option readed from the image properties. There is something similar here: <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65028/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/65028/</a>. </p><p>What do you think?</p><p>s.</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Anil Gunturu" <anil.gunturu@riftio.com><br><b>To: </b>openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, January 25, 2014 4:31:51 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[openstack-dev] [nova] hugepage support<br><div><br></div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;">Reposting with correct category in the subject.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: #1f497d;"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in" data-mce-style="border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in" data-mce-style="margin-left: .5in;"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" data-mce-style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> Anil Gunturu [mailto:anil.gunturu@riftio.com] <br> <b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:18 AM<br> <b>To:</b> openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org<br> <b>Subject:</b> [openstack-dev] hugepage support</span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in" data-mce-style="margin-left: .5in;"> </p><p style="margin-left:.5in" data-mce-style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#535353;background:white" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #535353; background: white;">Hi,</span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in" data-mce-style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#535353;background:white" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #535353; background: white;">Is it possible to enable the hugepages in the guest OS for the VMs launched in OpenStack (with KVM hypervisor)? Specifically is it possible to pass the “-mem-path” option when invoking QEMU?</span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in" data-mce-style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#535353;background:white" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #535353; background: white;">Thanks,</span></p><p style="margin-left:.5in" data-mce-style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#535353;background:white" data-mce-style="font-size: 9.0pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #535353; background: white;">Anil</span></p></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenStack-dev mailing list<br>OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org<br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>