On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Graham Campbell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? >
VM won't start. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
