From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: a few may be wiki question Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:26:10 +0300 Message-ID: <46C1BB82.3050702@qumranet.com> References: <46C19F33.40102@bppiac.hu> <46C1A508.9030809@qumranet.com> <46C1B07D.60402@bppiac.hu> <46C1B83F.703@qumranet.com> <46C1BA60.90300@bppiac.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Farkas Levente Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46C1BA60.90300-lWVWdrzSO4GHXe+LvDLADg@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 Farkas Levente wrote: > 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? > At present, yes. > but then what this faq means? > http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/FAQ#head-03de45d48dbc4f37baa6e42b8c14a5bd0182b2e2 > > No idea. I didn't add it :) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/