2011/1/29 Darko PetroviÄ <darko.b.petrovic@xxxxxxxxx>: > Thanks for your help. Actually, I am more interested in doing it from the > outside, if possible (I am not allowed to change the application code). Can > the guest be tricked by KVM somehow, using the appropriate drivers? Just to > clear it out, copying to/from a host buffer is fine, I just want to avoid > having guest buffers. Not really. If the application is designed to use the page cache then it will use it. You might want to look at unmapped page cache control which is not in mainline Linux yet: http://lwn.net/Articles/419713/ Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html