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sorenjantoday at 3:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Am I understanding the ballooning part right that this doesn't allocate all of the VM memory from the host until it's needed, and releases memory automatically when it's not needed anymore? So you can overprovision memory with multiple guests as long as the guests aren't using the memory at the same time?


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traversedatoday at 3:28 PM

Yes, it requires a daemon running inside the VM and can be finicky though.