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Date:      Tue, 6 Sep 2016 08:48:52 -0700
From:      Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org>
To:        Grzegorz Junka <list1@gjunka.com>
Cc:        freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bhyve and dynamic allocation
Message-ID:  <0553cd28-02da-ea34-19fc-340f8bfa6e23@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <862088a4-6934-4a03-cc1c-4b27154b9bb2@gjunka.com>
References:  <862088a4-6934-4a03-cc1c-4b27154b9bb2@gjunka.com>

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Hi Grzegorz,

> Is it possible / supported / planned to run a client OS without
> specifying RAM/HDD up-front but with dynamically allocated resources?

  The amount of RAM specified is just the maximum allowed, and by 
default is demand-paged without any pre-allocation.

  For disk, the same effect can be achieved by using a sparse volume, 
e.g. 'truncate -s <disk-siz>' on UFS.

later,

Peter.




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