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Re: [Xen-users] Swap: create or not?

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Henrik Langos
<hlangos-xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> About balooning: AFAIK this only means taking memory away from dom0.

No

> DomU's have a fixed amount of memory, don't they?

domU memory can shrink or grow (if setup corectly) from their initial
value. There's even a script (installed in domUs) that can do this
automatically based on domU's memory needs (don't have the link handy
right now), which would (from user's perspective) allow Xen to
overcommit memory.

-- 
Fajar

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