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    That works because you have effectively disabled ballooning for the
    VM, which is not really solving the underlying problem.<br>
    <br>
    regards,<br>
    John<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/11/14 10:02, Groten, Ryan wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century
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            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:&quot;Century
            Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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>
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            style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Century
            Gothic&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:windowtext"
                  lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:windowtext"
                lang="EN-US"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">users-bounces@ovirt.org</a>
                [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org">mailto:users-bounces@ovirt.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>John
                Gardeniers<br>
                <b>Sent:</b> November-16-14 10:13 PM<br>
                <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">users@ovirt.org</a><br>
                <b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver
                unavailable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        <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>
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          <p class="MsoNormal">On 13/11/14 07:35, John Gardeniers wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <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>
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            <p class="MsoNormal">On 12/11/14 20:04, Amedeo Salvati
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;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 -&gt; (select your cluster) edit -&gt;
                    Optimization -&gt; 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 moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:Karli.Sjoberg@slu.se">&lt;Karli.Sjoberg@slu.se&gt;</a><br>
                    To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:tdemeter@itsmart.hu">"tdemeter@itsmart.hu"</a>
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:tdemeter@itsmart.hu">&lt;tdemeter@itsmart.hu&gt;</a><br>
                    Cc: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">"users@ovirt.org"</a>
                    <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="mailto:users@ovirt.org">&lt;users@ovirt.org&gt;</a><br>
                    Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver
                    unavailable<br>
                    Message-ID:
                    &lt;5F9E965F5A80BC468BE5F40576769F099DF97243@exchange2-1&gt;<br>
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                    <br>
                    On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 08:35 +0100, Demeter Tibor
                    wrote:<br>
                    &gt; Hi,<br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; I have a lot of centos 6 based vms and I have
                    install "ovirt guest<br>
                    &gt; agent" for those vms. <br>
                    &gt; But two vm always say "The balloon driver on
                    xxxvm on hostX is<br>
                    &gt; requested but unavailable"<br>
                    &gt; I did check the virtio_balloon module are
                    loaded on vms.<br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; Anybody can me help?<br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; Thanks in advance<br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; <br>
                    &gt; Tibor<br>
                    <br>
                    &gt; I see that too, but only on Windows 2008 R2
                    guests... No one else ever<br>
                    &gt; said anything about it, so I thought it was
                    just me:)<br>
                    <br>
                    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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