[ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable

[John Gardeniers]

That works because you have effectively disabled ballooning for the VM, 
which is not really solving the underlying problem.

regards,
John


On 18/11/14 10:02, Groten, Ryan wrote:
>
> I also recently started getting these errors.  They started when I 
> upgraded from 3.4.0 to 3.4.2.
>
> 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.
>
> I got the message to stop appearing by changing the value of Physical 
> Memory Guaranteed to match the VMs configured memory.
>
> *From:*users-bounces at ovirt.org [mailto:users-bounces at ovirt.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *John Gardeniers
> *Sent:* November-16-14 10:13 PM
> *To:* users at ovirt.org
> *Subject:* Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable
>
> Just an FYI.
>
> 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.
>
> regards,
> John
>
> On 13/11/14 07:35, John Gardeniers wrote:
>
>     I'm seeing it for a VM that most definitely does have the balloon
>     driver installed. Care to take another guess?
>
>     regards,
>     John
>
>     On 12/11/14 20:04, Amedeo Salvati wrote:
>
>         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
>
>         Clusters -> (select your cluster) edit -> Optimization ->
>         uncheck Enable Memory Balloon Optimization
>
>         Best Regards
>         Amedeo Salvati
>
>
>         Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:59:33 +0000
>         From: Karli Sj?berg <Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
>         <mailto:Karli.Sjoberg at slu.se>
>         To: "tdemeter at itsmart.hu" <mailto:tdemeter at itsmart.hu>
>         <tdemeter at itsmart.hu> <mailto:tdemeter at itsmart.hu>
>         Cc: "users at ovirt.org" <mailto:users at ovirt.org>
>         <users at ovirt.org> <mailto:users at ovirt.org>
>         Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Balloon driver unavailable
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>         On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 08:35 +0100, Demeter Tibor wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         >
>         >
>         > I have a lot of centos 6 based vms and I have install "ovirt
>         guest
>         > agent" for those vms.
>         > But two vm always say "The balloon driver on xxxvm on hostX is
>         > requested but unavailable"
>         > I did check the virtio_balloon module are loaded on vms.
>         >
>         >
>         > Anybody can me help?
>         >
>         >
>         > Thanks in advance
>         >
>         >
>         > Tibor
>
>         > I see that too, but only on Windows 2008 R2 guests... No one
>         else ever
>         > said anything about it, so I thought it was just me:)
>
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