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From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Haifeng He <hehaifeng2nd-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Memory sharing among guest OSs
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:39:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <474D8B97.6090100@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ab08258e0711280252n5e72267q7c18c3ea254916b2-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>

Haifeng He wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am pretty new to KVM. I have a question which is if it
> is possible (or easy) to share memory(such identical pages)
> among guest OSs in KVM?
>
>   

In KVM, guest memory is normal userspace memory.  So you can use any of 
the standard Linux shared memory mechanisms to share memory among guests.

-- 
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 10:52 Memory sharing among guest OSs Haifeng He
     [not found] ` <ab08258e0711280252n5e72267q7c18c3ea254916b2-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28 15:39   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
     [not found]     ` <474D8B97.6090100-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-28 16:12       ` Javier Guerra
     [not found]         ` <90eb1dc70711280812r7c55d15ehacf2645c0a42ae81-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2007-11-30  7:12           ` Avi Kivity

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