Paging Virtual memory breaks programs into fixed-size blocks called pages. If a computer has abundant physical memory, the operating system loads all of a program's pages into RAM.

The guest OS maps virtual memory to real memory via its page tables, and the VMM page tables map the guests’ real memory to physical memory. The virtual memory architecture is specified either via ...

OS X Lion's FileVault technology may seem to make encrypted virtual memory redundant, but maintaining encryption even with FileVault 2 enabled is likely a good idea. Topher, an avid Mac user for ...

In OS X one aspect of the virtual memory system is the disk cache, which is used to overcome the relatively slow speed of the hard drive by mirroring its filesystem blocks in memory.