[Users] Sharing pages between VMs

Enrico Weigelt weigelt at metux.de
Mon Sep 25 15:38:03 EDT 2006


* Pavel Emelianov <xemul at openvz.org> wrote:
> Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > is it possible to share pages between several VMs if they use
> > the same filesystem ? 
> 
> This is done "autmatically" :)
> When two VEs open/mmap the same file it's pages
> are shared between them.

Cool :) 
Now the interesting question: how can I mount several dirs in
away that one VE cannot hurth another and mmap'ing is possible
(AFAIK network filesystems are not mmap-capable).
Does simfs handle all that properly ?


cu
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