[Users] No Balloon Device

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Thu Apr 26 07:10:12 UTC 2012


On 04/26/2012 04:32 AM, David Metcalf wrote:
> I have installed the memory balloon driver in my Windows guest but the
> driver says it can not start.  I have also found no reference to the
> balloon device when looking at the qemu command line arguments of the
> process.  Is there some way to add the balloon device I missed?
>
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vdsm disables the balloon historically.
a new option to enable it has been added, but engine doesn't send it yet.
you can write a small vdsm hook script in the meanwhile to enable it 
(samples:
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=tree;f=vdsm_hooks
)



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