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23.6. Memory Backing
Memory backing allows the hypervisor to properly manage large pages within the guest virtual machine.
<domain>
...
<memoryBacking>
<hugepages>
<page size="1" unit="G" nodeset="0-3,5"/>
<page size="2" unit="M" nodeset="4"/>
</hugepages>
<nosharepages/>
<locked/>
</memoryBacking>
...
</domain>
Figure 23.8. Memory backing
For detailed information on memoryBacking elements, see the libvirt upstream documentation.

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