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Re: [Xen-devel] Feature idea

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Feature idea
From: chris <tknchris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:48:57 -0400
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Cool thanks, I knew I couldn't be the first to think of it :) I will check it out

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 4:04 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 01:30 +0100, chris wrote:
> Is there any mechanism to give a.domU memory from dom0 swap? It would
> be neat/useful if we could utilize that to test things in a vm with
> more RAM than is.physically available. Obviously performance wouldn't
> be.stellar.but it would still have some usefulness

The xenpaging feature which some folks are working on allows guest RAM
to be swapped to a file in dom0.

It lives in tools/xenpaging. There's been loads of work on it since 4.1,
mainly by Olaf Hering.

Ian.


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