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From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Re: how to balloon memory with a Windows guest domain
	under Xen
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:08:59 +0000
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George Dunlap wrote:
> To balloon a Windows guest, you need a balloon driver installed in
> Windows.  You can find them here:
>  http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenWindowsGplPv
> 

You could also try the Citrix PV drivers which are part of the XenCloud 
platform. These will work on open source but there's a couple of hacks 
you'll need to do (one in the registry, one in xenstore). Let me know if 
you want to give them a try.

   Paul