From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Memory ballooning deactivated by the guest Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 12:12:02 +0200 Message-ID: <4B41BEF2.8050604@redhat.com> References: <20100104092028.GC2794@defiant.freesoftware> <4B41B52F.2020103@redhat.com> <20100104100852.GD2794@defiant.freesoftware> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dbareiro@gmx.net, KVM General Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:11428 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753130Ab0ADKMG (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:12:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20100104100852.GD2794@defiant.freesoftware> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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