From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxxbK-0003dc-Se for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:58:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FxxbI-0003dQ-Fh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:58:53 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FxxbI-0003dN-AH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 22:58:52 -0400 Received: from [66.249.92.172] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fxxp6-0001xi-7k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 23:13:08 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so1904106ugd for ; Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:58:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <946a3fda0607041958p2e5daab3o2c6d3f633aafc089@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:58:50 -0500 From: "Eric L" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Qemu-devel] balloon driver Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel Hi all, I've been playing around with QEMU the past few days and have been quite impressed. One thing I wondered about: it seems that most of the other virtualization schemes have some sort of balloon driver to reclaim unused (cached) guest memory. (VMWare, Xen and I think user mode linux has something too). It seems like a pretty good idea to me, but from my searching, it would appear that QEMU does not have anything similar. Is this correct? If so, is there a reason why? - E