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Virtual Machines and Memory Protections

Posted Nov 22, 2006 11:42 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
Parent article: Virtual Machines and Memory Protections

double-mapping a file doesn't create more disk access if you create it on a tmpfs filesystem. user-mode-linux already has to do exactly that to map the guest's 'physical' RAM, so this is not a new trick, and really does work.

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