From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: automatic memory ballooning? Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:32:19 +0300 Message-ID: <4A87EE43.6090109@redhat.com> References: <200908160355.46652.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:58870 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753316AbZHPLcU (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:32:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200908160355.46652.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm > guest running for a couple days, and the balloon driver was loaded, and I > could manually change the amount of ram it had allocated in the console, but > it never seemed to change automatically. > > Is there any support for that? > That would be part of a management application. qemu only knows about the guest it controls, while ballooning needs a global view of the system. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function