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		patrickgzill on May 24, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LXC in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS True, but then the live-migrate feature would not be possible. Also, even in Xen, the ballooning can only be done in a range (I think not quite 4 times), so you can't set up 1GB and then balloon to 28GB, then go down to 1GB again.

regularfry on May 24, 2012 [–]

> True, but then the live-migrate feature would not be possible.

Why not?

> Also, even in Xen, the ballooning can only be done in a range (I think not quite 4 times), so you can't set up 1GB and then balloon to 28GB, then go down to 1GB again.

I don't think kvm has that limitation.

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