Re: [PATCH] kvm tools: Add option to specify backing storage for RAM

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On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:12 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Well, I don't still quite see the point of this feature. Is there some
> real world use for running guests with huge memory space that's
> swap-backed?

Not a single guest, but multiple guests which take more RAM than the
host can provide using paging. This happened to me when I tried booting
several servers to test network bridging.

Can't say it's a common use-case though.

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Sasha.

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