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Re: [Xen-users] can i use swap as memory dedicated to the xen VMs

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] can i use swap as memory dedicated to the xen VMs
From: Ernst Bachmann <e.bachmann@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:20:09 +0100
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On Sunday 20 November 2005 17:15, Mustafa Abbasi wrote:
> this is in reference to the option in the grub lines.
> i have only 256 mb ram. so i can't give the VMs more than a 100 mb.
>
> can i use swap as memory like in qemu.
> thank you

There was a discussing about that recently, in short, thats not possible.
xen doesn't even know what harddrives are, so there's no way it could use a 
swap partition.

/Ernst

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