How close is plex to being able to run a guest OS in pageable memory? I
don't expect that this is a huge priority, but the FreeBSD port may require
plex to be able to do this (sorry!). Also, does the guest memory have to be
*physically* contiguous, or is *virtually* contiguous memory (as in,
relative to the kernel module's address space) sufficient?
I've been working on a kernel module for FreeBSD for the last few days, and
physically contiguous memory is pretty hard to come by, especially after the
system has been running for a while. The chance of getting even 1 or 2 Mb,
let alone the 8-32 Mb that a guest OS would need, is next to nil for a
system that has been running for any length of time.
I can't even have the module load at boot time and sit around idle, because
the memory is allocated on demand, and I wouldn't want to tie up potentially
half or more of a system's RAM just sitting there, waiting for a plex
session request for memory.
Thanks in advance,
Isaac Waldron
waldroni at lr dot net
