Re: [uml-user] utility of swap files for virtual machines?

2006-07-19 Thread alessandro salvatori
I guess you are right. You might wish to have a look to note 4, on page 26 of Jeff Dike's book on UML, which explains the performance pitfall that may come out of having both the host and the guest use virtual memory. cheers alessandro On 7/19/06, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is

Re: [uml-user] utility of swap files for virtual machines?

2006-07-19 Thread Peter Buzanits
2006/7/19, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Since the UML is obtaining it's memory from the host virtual memory I > figure that it is better to simply assign a larger memory to each UML > instance than to assign each UML a swap file. Not everyone runs UML on a host with very large RAM. If

[uml-user] utility of swap files for virtual machines?

2006-07-19 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Is there any point at all in having a swap file assigned to a UML virtual machine? (other than testing swap) Since the UML is obtaining it's memory from the host virtual memory I figure that it is better to simply assign a larger memory to each UML instance than to assign each UML a swap file. Do