Re: [plex86] just a thought

[Elmar Haneke]

Eric Laberge wrote:

> Unfortunately, even when an operating system doesn't use files, it still
> needs access to its swap file, which I guess would be pretty screwed up
> with a removable disk.

For performance reasons it might be an advantage if swapping can be
forwarded to the native swapfile. Instead of allowing the guest to
generate an swapfile-based virtual Memory of e.g. 128 MB it should be
possible to allocate 128 MB of virtual Memory on the host OS (which
ist presented as physical Memory to the guest) and disable swapping in
the guest OS. To do so the guest-OS should have an option not to use
all available Memory for Disk-Caching purposes.

Elmar