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...then RAM on the host OS will be used until such time as the amount of RAM requested exceeds the host OSes physical memory, and then it will go into swap-space. this is presumed to be infinitely better than forcing the swapspace to be always on disk, especially with the guests only being allocated 32mbyte of physical RAM. here''s the problems: 1) tmpfs doesn''t support sparse files 2) files created in tmpfs don''t support block devices (???) 3) as a workaround i have to create a swap partition in a 256mb file, (dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1M count=256 and do mk...