[Users] Balloon Driver doesn't load

[Ayal Baron]

----- Original Message -----
> On 04/25/2012 05:08 PM, David Metcalf wrote:
> > The Balloon Driver on Windows 7 isn't starting. I also notice that
> > qemu
> > command does not show a balloon flag so I think the device was
> > never
> > presented to the guest. How do I get the balloon device to show up?
> 
> historically, vdsm disabled it.
> now vdsm allows passing it, but engine still doesn't.
> so you can either write a small vdsm hook script to manipulate the
> libvirt xml passed by vdsm, or send an engine patch to allow
> controlling
> the balloon device enablement.

The latter is preferable.

You can also take a look at the vdsm-mom integration patches
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,2367

and specific patch for configuring ballooning (vdsm side only):
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#change,3669

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