Re: Live memory allocation?

Evert
2009-03-26T17:47:30Z

Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 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.
>
>

I have amended
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_platform_virtual_machines
based on this thread :-)

Greetings,
Evert