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Re: Re: [Xen-devel] Balloon driver for Linux/HVM

To: Chu Rui <ruichu@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Re: [Xen-devel] Balloon driver for Linux/HVM
From: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:02:44 +0100
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Hello,

On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 12:53:17AM +0800, Chu Rui wrote:
> Sorry for the misleading statements before.
> The balloon, as my point of view, has the problems as follows:
> 1. cannot deflate to a "negative" size. therefore the guest swapping will
> become a problem.
> 2. long reactive time.
> While the advantage is that it need not any guest os modification.

No problem, however could you tell me which type of system you are
using (Linux, Windows, ...), its version and exact kernel version
if it is the case ???

Daniel

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