.Fixed Memory Allocation
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-When setting memory and minimum memory to the same amount
+ghen setting memory and minimum memory to the same amount
{pve} will simply allocate what you specify to your VM.
Even when using a fixed memory size, the ballooning device gets added to the
Inter-VM shared memory
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-You can add a Inter-VM shared memory device (`ivshmem`) to be able to
-share memory between the host and a guest, or between multiple guests.
+You can add an Inter-VM shared memory device (`ivshmem`), which allows one to
+share memory between the host and a guest, or also between multiple guests.
To add such a device, you can use `qm`:
Where the size is in MiB. The file will be located under
`/dev/shm/pve-shm-$name` (the default name is the vmid).
-A usecase for such a device is Looking Glass
-footnote:[Looking Glass: https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/]
+NOTE: Currently the device will get deleted as soon as any VM using it got
+shutdown or stopped. Open connections will still persist, but new connections
+to the exact same device cannot be made anymore.
+
+A use case for such a device is the Looking Glass
+footnote:[Looking Glass: https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/] project,
which enables high performance, low-latency display mirroring between
host and guest.