kellyapproved@xxxxxx wrote:
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> When you setup a guest OS, you need to allocate RAM to it.
>
> Let's say you have a host with 3 GB of RAM with two guests, each of
> which you allocate 1 GB of RAM.
>
> If both guests are in use, the host and two guests will get 1 GB of
> RAM each.
>
> Is there a way to set it so that if only 1 guest is in use, it can
> draw on the spare RAM that is allocated to the other guest that is not
> used.
If one VM could monitor the memory usage of another VM to see what
blocks were unallocated, you just threw out the isolation that
virtualization is supposed to afford for security.