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Re: [Xen-users] system suggestion

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] system suggestion
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 12:53:49 +0100
Cc: Andrew Thompson <andrewkt@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> IMO, the limiting factor is not CPU but RAM available to a virtual
> machine.  it would be nice if there were some way to let memory float
> between virtual machines based on need.  In the other hand, it may be
> there already and I just haven't figured it out.

It doesn't happen automatically - you'd have to use the balloon driver to 
shrink one domain and grow another one.  A feature we'd like to see is 
"auto-ballooning" where dom0 will adjust domU memory footprints based on 
their current utilisation.  This is likely to appear at some stage in the 
future...

Cheers,
Mark

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