[Haifux] [WINTER PROJECT OFFER] virtualization - rational memory overcommitment

2011-05-18 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
The corrected version - now with the missing references. -- Forwarded message -- Hello Systems People, In virtual machines, the host (hypervisor) can allocate memory to different guest virtual machines as it sees fit. In particular, it can let a guest have less physical memory than the gu

[Haifux] [WINTER PROJECT OFFER] virtualization - rational memory overcommitment

2011-05-18 Thread Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda
Hello Systems People, In virtual machines, the host (hypervisor) can allocate memory to different guest virtual machines as it sees fit. In particular, it can let a guest have less physical memory than the guest thinks it needs. This is called memory overcommitment, and it allows the hypervisor to