[ovirt-users] Re: Memory ballon question

Do you have the overt-guest-agent running on your VMs? It’s required for ballooning to control allocations on the guest side. > On Jun 12, 2019, at 11:32 AM, Strahil <hunter86_bg(a)yahoo.com&gt; wrote: > > Hello All, > > as a KVM user I know how usefull is the memory balloon and how you can both increase - and also decrease memory live (both Linux & Windows). > I have noticed that I cannot decrease the memory in oVirt. > > Does anyone got a clue why the situation is like that ? > > I was expecting that the guaranteed memory is the minimum to which the balloon driver will not go bellow, but when I put my host under pressure - the host just started to swap instead of reducing some of the VM memory (and my VMs had plenty of free space). > > It will be great if oVirt can decrease the memory (if the VM has unallocated memory) when the host is under pressure and the VM cannot be relocated. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/LUWCN2MLNTD...