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Re: [Xen-devel] Balloon Driver Question

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Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Balloon Driver Question
From: Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 01:18:02 +0100
Cc: Michael McCabe <mccabemt@xxxxxxxxx>
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> In the paper Xen and the Art of Virtualization there is a mention of
> patching the guest operating system's out of memory handling mechanism
> to automatically request more memory.  I was wondering if anyone has
> done any work on this and how difficult this would be to complete in the
> next couple of weeks.

Don't think anyone is working on this but it would be a cool trick.

I'd have thought it'd be reasonably straightforward to do, though.

Cheers,
Mark

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