Re: [coLinux-users] q: dynamic sized image & memory sharing.

[Paolo M. <pao...@gm...>]

1) No, it is not possible. You need a new cobd.
2) I'm not sure if colinux alloc all the memory you have required at
the startup ... I don't know these details ;=)

Paolo


On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Chan Kar Heng <cha...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2 questions:
>
> 1) dynamic sized images.
> Can images be dynamically sized?
> ie: a file having the root file system only actually occupy 1GB hdd
> space temporarily (but is supposed to be an 80GB hdd).
> I've also learnt that linux is capable of mounting a filesystem that is
> backed by a file.
> ie: use dd to create a file called /tmp/myfs, having size of say 10GB;
> /tmp/myfs can then be mounted & formatted to ext2fs.
> Is there a way to make this dynamically sized?
> I'm looking for something similar to what's in VMWare (option to only
> consume required disk space later).
>
> 2) memory sharing.
> My laptop has 4GB memory.
> Can both Windows & coLinux just assume it both has 4GB memory?
> Say if an application under Windows takes up 3GB memory, then only 1GB
> will be available for coLinux.
> Can this be done?
> Am wondering if this option is available instead of making coLinux take
> up a fixed memory of say 2GB, making memory unavailable to my other
> Windows apps. This also makes memory from Windows unavailable to coLinux
> when my coLinux needs more than 2GB.
>
> Thanks & best regards,
>
> KarHeng
>