bhyve and dynamic allocation

Peter Grehan grehan at freebsd.org
Tue Sep 6 15:49:13 UTC 2016


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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