I agree, and of it would be better of course if we could tell Plex86 to
use, let's say, 256MB RAM. But will the guest OS will understand not to
create its own swap? We must not assume anything about the guest.
EL
At 13:02 2000-12-17 +0100, you wrote:
>Eric Laberge wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, even when an operating system doesn't use files, it still
> > needs access to its swap file, which I guess would be pretty screwed up
> > with a removable disk.
>
>For performance reasons it might be an advantage if swapping can be
>forwarded to the native swapfile. Instead of allowing the guest to
>generate an swapfile-based virtual Memory of e.g. 128 MB it should be
>possible to allocate 128 MB of virtual Memory on the host OS (which
>ist presented as physical Memory to the guest) and disable swapping in
>the guest OS. To do so the guest-OS should have an option not to use
>all available Memory for Disk-Caching purposes.
>
>Elmar
