Re: Live memory allocation?

Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-03-26T14:11:09Z

Izik Eidus schrieb:
> 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.

Like, two guests, each with 2 GB memory allocated only use 1 GB of
host's memory (as long as they don't have many programs/buffers/cache)?

So yes, it's also supported by KVM.

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Tomasz Chmielewski