This section controls the virtual machine memory environment. The following list describes these options:
allocator
Virtual machine memory allocator.
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Description
The allocator option is used to indicate to the virtual machine which memory allocation method the host system will use to allocate the virtual memory environment. The memory-allocator value can be set according to the able below:
Virtual Machine Memory Allocators
| Allocator | Description |
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| hugetbl | All virtual machine RAM is allocate from hugetlbfs. |
| malloc | All virtual machine RAM is allocated from system heap. |
| mmap | All virtual machine RAM is allocated from file-backed virtual memory via mmap. |
size
Virtual machine memory size.
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Description
This option specifies the amount of host memory that the virtual machine should make available to the guest. It is specified in megabytes (MB).