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From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Live memory allocation?
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:04:09 +0200
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Evert schrieb:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> According to the Wikipedia ( 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines 
>> ) both VirtualBox & VMware server support something called 'Live 
>> memory allocation'.
>> Does KVM support this as well?
>
> What does this term mean exactly? Is it the same as "ballooning" used 
> by KVM?
>
>
I guess it referring to memory allocation on first time access to the 
memory areas, Meaning the memory allocation will be made only when it 
really going to be used.


(But this is just a guess)