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Re:Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs fo... by jsjohnst on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @02:42PM (#21765983)
> I mean how would linux behave when you add/remove cores and RAM f.ex.?

This is already possible on ESXi with Linux guests for years now, so it’s certainly a solved problem in some capacity.

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Re:Introducing E2, new cost-optimized general purpose VMs fo... by ti_ranger on Thursday December 12, 2019 @05:05AM (#21770676)
> This is already possible on ESXi with Linux guests for years now, so it’s certainly a solved problem in some capacity.

And has been possible on KVM (e.g. VirtManager, RHV/RHEV/Ovirt) for years too.

Xen 3 also supported online memory increases (but I don't think CPU).

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