Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

In principle yes, in practice it's complicated, using something called "balloon drivers"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_ballooning



There’s also memory hotplugging via virtio-mem. But generally speaking downscaling live vm memory can’t be said to be a solved problem, it’s more of an active area of research.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: