Re: Live memory allocation?

Izik Eidus
2009-03-26T14:05:18Z

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)