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You can take memory from the VM. I've just tested it on KVM, dropping the current memory allocation for a vm, and reraising it. Shows up in free in the vm insta
by wiredfool 9y ago
You can take memory from the VM. I've just tested it on KVM, dropping the current memory allocation for a vm, and reraising it. Shows up in free in the vm instantly.
- andrewstuart2 9y agoWell it sounds like that is possible, but is there any way for the VM to indicate to the hypervisor that there is unused memory? Or for that fact, that it needs more? That's the critical missing piece, unless there's an API I'm unaware of.
- inetknght 9y agoI suppose this question should be posed on a linux kernel mailing list somewhere.