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US 2010/0169536 A1Published application
Dynamic virtual machine memory management
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsAndrey Shedel, Mohamed Bouchet, Eric Traut, Osama M. Salem, Kevin Broas
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Abstract
Techniques for adjusting memory in virtual machines are disclosed.
Claims20
A computer readable storage medium, comprising:
- instructions for obtaining memory status for a guest operating system;
- and
- instructions for adjusting, based on the obtained memory status, an amount of guest physical addresses reported to a memory manager of the guest operating system.
A method, comprising:
- calculating memory status of a guest operating system from at least physical memory notifications and guest operating system paging information;
- and
- adjusting, during the runtime operation of the guest operating system, an amount of memory available to the guest operating system based on at least the memory status of the guest operating system.
A computer system comprising:
- circuitry for effectuating a guest operating system within a child partition, the guest operating system having a priority level;
- circuitry for obtaining memory status from the guest operating system;
- and
- circuitry for adjusting an amount of guest physical addresses reported to a memory manager of the guest operating system based on the obtained memory status and the priority level of the guest operating system.
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