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Re: [Xen-users] Loading Image into Memory

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Loading Image into Memory
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:28:20 +0700
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:10 PM, <maillists0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone know if it's possible to load an entire image into memory and
> run it with no disk access? If so, how would you do it? (Is the question
> just ridiculous?)

Create a custom ramdisk/initrd containing everything you need, and use
ramdisk on domU config.
This usually only gives small usable space though, so if your concern
is dom0 disk access you might want to look at nfs/iscsi root.

-- 
Fajar

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