[Users] Balloon Driver doesn't load

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Sun Apr 29 02:15:01 UTC 2012


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.



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