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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'>I also recently started getting these errors. They started when I upgraded from 3.4.0 to 3.4.2. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'>The error appears on certain VMs (but not all) consistently every 15 minutes. It doesn’t matter if the “Memory Balloon Device Enabled” checkbox checked or unchecked.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'>I got the message to stop appearing by changing the value of Physical Memory Guaranteed to match the VMs configured memory.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> users-bounces@ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Gardeniers<br><b>Sent:</b> November-16-14 10:13 PM<br><b>To:</b> users@ovirt.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Just an FYI.<br><br>In my case the balloon driver was installed and it was running. The problem was eventually resolved by uninstalling the entire agent suite, rebooting and reinstalling it. Doing the same just for the balloon driver didn't work.<br><br>regards,<br>John<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 13/11/14 07:35, John Gardeniers wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I'm seeing it for a VM that most definitely does have the balloon driver installed. Care to take another guess?<br><br>regards,<br>John<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12/11/14 20:04, Amedeo Salvati wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F1C1B'>you receive this error because on your cluster configurations you have checked "Enable Memory Balloon Optimization", and on some of your VMs there aren't balloon driver available; if you don't want anymore this warning messages you can uncheck this under <br><br>Clusters -> (select your cluster) edit -> Optimization -> uncheck Enable Memory Balloon Optimization<br><br>Best Regards<br>Amedeo Salvati<br><br><br>Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:59:33 +0000<br>From: Karli Sj?berg <a href="mailto:Karli.Sjoberg@slu.se"><Karli.Sjoberg@slu.se></a><br>To: <a href="mailto:tdemeter@itsmart.hu">"tdemeter@itsmart.hu"</a> <a href="mailto:tdemeter@itsmart.hu"><tdemeter@itsmart.hu></a><br>Cc: <a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">"users@ovirt.org"</a> <a href="mailto:users@ovirt.org"><users@ovirt.org></a><br>Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable<br>Message-ID: <5F9E965F5A80BC468BE5F40576769F099DF97243@exchange2-1><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 08:35 +0100, Demeter Tibor wrote:<br>> Hi,<br>> <br>> <br>> I have a lot of centos 6 based vms and I have install "ovirt guest<br>> agent" for those vms. <br>> But two vm always say "The balloon driver on xxxvm on hostX is<br>> requested but unavailable"<br>> I did check the virtio_balloon module are loaded on vms.<br>> <br>> <br>> Anybody can me help?<br>> <br>> <br>> Thanks in advance<br>> <br>> <br>> Tibor<br><br>> I see that too, but only on Windows 2008 R2 guests... 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