Re: [ANNOUNCE] kvm-46 release

Dor Laor
2007-10-10T14:59:51Z

Haydn Solomon wrote:
> Should we be seeing a mmap file when running guests now or do we have
> to use a special flag when running kvm?
>
Nope, the default is user space allocation were a regular malloc is used
for allocating the guest ram from userspace.
The mmap is for future shared memory implementations for parts of the
guest memory space.
> On 10/10/07, *Avi Kivity* < avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org
> <mailto:avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>> wrote:
>
> Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 10:28:24AM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >
> >> We've now switched to allocating guest memory in userspace
> rather than
> >> in the kernel. This is important if you have a mainframe, but
> also if
> >> you want to share memory between guests and implement nice
> features like
> >> swapping.
> >>
> >
> > Is the memory allocation swappable by default, or still pinned
> in RAM by
> > default ?
> >
> >
>
> It's still not swappable. That will come in a future release.
>
>
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> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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