On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Add --use-backing to allow for the usage of a temporary backing file for guest RAM. > A temporary file is created and aollocated under /tmp and is used to back the RAM memory which is mmaped for the guest. > There should be enough storage space under /tmp to use this option (at least the size of the guest RAM). > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx> OK, but what is this useful for? Why would someone want to do this? -- 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