>Can you clarify something for me please? On Virtual Server 2005 r2
>does it support dynamic memory like VMWare? If it does please tell me
>where I can find a document explaining how to set this up. I have a
>Dell 6850 with 2 dual core Intel chips and 16gb of ram. I have 6
>Virtual servers running and when I try to start a 3rd it states not
>enough physical memory. I know that all those are not using the
>2gb/machine allocated to them.
>
>
>Can you shed some light on this please…
>
>
> thanks … Bob

> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 23:46:46 -0500, Robert D. Evans
>
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
> >Can you clarify something for me please? On Virtual Server 2005 r2
> >does it support dynamic memory like VMWare? If it does please tell me
> >where I can find a document explaining how to set this up. I have a
> >Dell 6850 with 2 dual core Intel chips and 16gb of ram. I have 6
> >Virtual servers running and when I try to start a 3rd it states not
> >enough physical memory. I know that all those are not using the
> >2gb/machine allocated to them.
>
> >Can you shed some light on this please...
>
> > thanks ... BobYou cannot over commit physical memory in Virtual Server. When a VM
> is started, whatever memory allocated to it is locked and unavailable
> to any other process.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVPhttp://vpc.essjae.com/
> I do not work for Microsoft.

> Then can you explain why in the link listed it stats it supports
> DYNAMIC MEMORY UTILIZATION
>
> http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1224378,00.html

> In article <1165836472.494811.119230@
> 16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>, in the
> microsoft.public.virtualserver news group, Bob Evans
> <(email address - cut out)> says...
>
>> Then can you explain why in the link listed it stats it supports
>> DYNAMIC MEMORY UTILIZATION
>>
>> http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid94_gci1224378,00.html
>
> Since the article in question was neither created nor published
> by Microsoft, perhaps you should ask the author.
>
>
> --
> Paul Adare - MVP Virtual Machines
> Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
> with the similar tantalisation that something,
> sometime, somehow, will turn up. George Courtauld
>

>from what I've heard, (I know, it will not stick in a court of law) Virtual
>server (the service) already supports this,, only the interface does not
>(yet) it should be supported through Virtual Machine Manager, (on Virtual
>server).
>I am Am mistaken sorry for this, but this is what I have heard from sources
>that have prooved to be very reliable.
>

> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 13:28:49 +0100, "Eric Denekamp"
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
>>from what I've heard, (I know, it will not stick in a court of law)
>>Virtual
>>server (the service) already supports this,, only the interface does not
>>(yet) it should be supported through Virtual Machine Manager, (on Virtual
>>server).
>>I am Am mistaken sorry for this, but this is what I have heard from
>>sources
>>that have prooved to be very reliable.
>>
>
> Unless there's some new secret in an upcoming version I don't know
> about, the author of that article is wrong about dynamic memory
> allocation.
>
> At any rate, none of the currently available versions of Virtual
> Server support dynamic memory allocation.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
> http://vpc.essjae.com/
> I do not work for Microsoft.

>Can it be that my source was mistaking and mixed up Hypoervisor and Virtual
>server 2005 R2 SP1?
>
>I am very curious about it
>
>Eric D