[Devel] Query on host swapping of guest pages.

[Kirill Korotaev]

Arn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need to know the following for some experiments I'm doing as part of
> a school project:
> 
> Does OpenVZ support host swapping of guest pages ? That is : if a host
> experiences memory pressure, can it swap out some of a guest's (guest
> vm) pages and use them ? I assume that if this is possible then when
> the guest needs to use the memory again it will be swapped back in ?
> Can someone confirm if OpenVz does this ?

yes, it does.

> Also, can the host change the memory allocation for a guest at runtime
> (while the guest is running) ?

not sure what you mean...


> 
> Thanks
> Arn
> 
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