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WinBoat is a new Linux app to run Windows apps with "seamless integration" (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] Jenseitsjens@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

No I'm talking about VMs. It's the baloon kernel driver which also works on Windows (though needs separate installation). It doesn't work quite like containers though. The hypervisor dynamically adds/removes memory to the VM depending on total memory usage of the hypervisor.

See https://pve02.northcode.ch:8006/pve-docs/chapter-qm.html#qm_memory