On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Klaus Espenlaub < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 20.01.2011 15:33, Howard Su wrote: > >> Does vbox has this feature or in the road-map? If not, someone is >> familiar with the code base can show me some lights on what's the start >> point to add this feature? >> > > What do you mean with "compress" - identifying indentical pages between VMs > and eliminating the duplicates? That's been added in VBox 3.2, page fusion. > > thanks. this is what i am looking for. Can you point me where is the related source code? I want to study it a bit. > True compression of memory pages doesn't sound sensible to me at the VM > level - we don't know as much about the meaning/use pattern of a memory page > than the guest OS. Compressing the wrong pages would potentially do more > harm than good. It's a feature which is popping up in some operating > systems, and there it makes sense. > > agree. i am not looking for this at all. > Klaus > > >> -- >> -Howard >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > -- -Howard
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