Virtio Techniques for Managing Guest Memory

Explore memory management techniques for virtual machines in this conference talk from KVM FORUM. Learn about memory ballooning, free page hinting and reporting, virtio-pmem, and virtio-mem. Understand the motivation behind managing guest memory and compare the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches. Gain insights into current developments, open items, and future outlook for virtual machine memory management. Discover valuable resources for further learning on this critical aspect of virtualization technology.

KVM FORUM
Motivation: Manage Guest Memory
Recap: Memory Ballooning
Using Memory Balloon Inflation / Deflation ?
virtio-balloon: inflate/deflate under guest control
free page hinting: by Wei Wang (Intel)
free page hinting: pros and cons
free page reporting: by Alexander Duyck (Intel)
free page reporting: pros and cons
Balloon: TODOS
virtio-pmem: Overview (2)
virtio-prem: (Dis)Advantages and Open Items
virtio-mem: Overview (1)
virtio-mem: (Dis)Advantages and Open Items
Summary + Outlook
Resources