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Understanding virtual memory
From the course: Learning Virtualization
Understanding virtual memory
- [Instructor] In this section, I'd like to talk about memory in virtual machines. Your hypervisor will provide access to memory to all of the guest machines. For the most part, this is a fairly simple process. However, there can be some difficult terminology. It's not accurate to call this process virtual memory, virtual memory is something else. Virtual memory is inside of a computer when something that's typically held in RAM is instead written to the hard drive. And that happens in all computers whether they are virtualized or not. It's also not correct to call it vRAM, vRAM is typically a term for video RAM and has nothing to do with virtualization. So memory and virtual machines doesn't really have a shorthand when we speak about it. It's just called memory and virtual machines. Most of the implementation of this is fairly simple. The hypervisor will provide access to physical memory. So every guest machine gets its…
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