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stingraycharlestoday at 10:52 AM3 repliesview on HN

I don’t assume that macOS virtualization is advanced enough to support memory ballooning, or is that not what you’re referring to?

Edit: I stand corrected!


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pyth0today at 11:04 AM

I don't assume anything either, but a single Google search is enough to dispel that [1]

[1] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzv...

sgttoday at 11:15 AM

macOS is generally pretty amazing at efficient memory usage and VM (virtual memory subsystem) handling. So even a 8GB machine can run pretty impressive workloads without having the user think the machine is underpowered.

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nottorptoday at 11:02 AM

What will that help with if the host and guest combined need > physical ram?

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