From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Farkas Levente Subject: Re: a few may be wiki question Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:21:20 +0200 Message-ID: <46C1BA60.90300@bppiac.hu> References: <46C19F33.40102@bppiac.hu> <46C1A508.9030809@qumranet.com> <46C1B07D.60402@bppiac.hu> <46C1B83F.703@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46C1B83F.703-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Avi Kivity wrote: > There are two answers to this: > > - balloon driver (like in Xen) which allows the host to move memory from > one guest to another (or from host to guest) > - swapping, which allows the host to move guest memory to disk and > allocate it to another guest > > Unfortunately the balloon driver has not been publicly released yet, and > swapping is still in early development, so for now you will have to use > static allocation. ie. the sum of the host and the guests memory should have to be equal with the total physical memory? but then what this faq means? http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ#head-03de45d48dbc4f37baa6e42b8c14a5bd0182b2e2 -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/