On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com> wrote: > > This would effectively allow saving some RAM, which as in today's config > in VBox, might be blocked and idly wasted.
It is not wasted. It is reserved. If it's not reserved then another app on the host OS could take it. And then what will happen when the guest OS *thinks* it has some memory available but in fact does not? Then the host OS would begin swapping to disk. Then performance will suck, processes will hang on the guest OS, also slowing the host OS to a crawl with all that memory swapping going on. If you are memory constrained, you shouldn't be doing virtualization to begin with. Just my $0.02, on a personal level, speaking just as a end user. FC -- During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario - George Orwell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list VBox-users-community@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:vbox-users-community-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe
