From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: dbareiro@gmx.net, KVM General <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Memory ballooning deactivated by the guest
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:12:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B41BEF2.8050604@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100104100852.GD2794@defiant.freesoftware>
On 01/04/2010 12:08 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote:
>
>>> (qemu) info balloon
>>> The balloon device has not been activated by the guest
>>>
>> You need to add '-balloon virtio' to the qemu command line (the error
>> message is incorrect).
>>
> What do you mean whereupon the error message is incorrect?
>
It should say the balloon device is not activated by the host.
> Before I didn't need to use '-balloon virtio', although this was when I
> used kvm-88. This is a necessary requirement when using recent versions
> of qemu-kvm?
>
Yes.
> If now it is necessary, it could be useful to indicate it in the online
> documentation [1].
>
>
> [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio
>
That page is more about I/O, ballooning deserves a page of its own.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-04 10:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-04 9:20 Memory ballooning deactivated by the guest Daniel Bareiro
2010-01-04 9:30 ` Avi Kivity
2010-01-04 10:08 ` Daniel Bareiro
2010-01-04 10:12 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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