On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 08:43 +0200, Frank Mehnert wrote: > On Tuesday 26 May 2009, hanasaki jiji wrote: > > Can vbox use the total memory for allocation to VM's? (physical + > > swap) There are a couple VM's that will total just over 4gig of > > allocated RAM in the vm configuration. They box only has 4 gig of > > real ram. Thus I want to allocate the RAM to the vm's and have the > > host swap to disk as needed when total memory use by the guests goes > > over the amount left in the host as opposed to keeping the physical > > ram configured to the guests under 4gig total and putting swap in each > > guest. > > Only physical RAM is possible at the moment. Note that VirtualBox > allocates guest RAM on demand and once granted to a guest, the > RAM cannot be revoked until the VM process terminates. Therefore > you cannot start VMs which require in summary more than your host > RAM. Actually you need to keep some RAM available for you host > system (host kernel, host desktop environment, ...).
How is this enforced? i.e. what happens when you attempt to overcommit memory? -- Graham Campbell <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
