From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Bareiro Subject: Re: Memory ballooning deactivated by the guest Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 07:08:52 -0300 Message-ID: <20100104100852.GD2794@defiant.freesoftware> References: <20100104092028.GC2794@defiant.freesoftware> <4B41B52F.2020103@redhat.com> Reply-To: dbareiro@gmx.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0" Cc: Avi Kivity To: KVM General Return-path: Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:35990 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753286Ab0ADKI7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Jan 2010 05:08:59 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B41B52F.2020103@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Avi. On Monday, 04 January 2010 11:30:23 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: >> I'm using Linux 2.6.32.2 with qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 and, testing memory >> ballooning, I obtained the following message: >> >> root@ubuntu:~# telnet localhost 5001 >> Trying 127.0.0.1... >> Connected to localhost. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> QEMU 0.12.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information >> (qemu) >> (qemu) >> (qemu) >> (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? 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? If now it is necessary, it could be useful to indicate it in the online documentation [1]. Thanks for your speedy reply. Regards, Daniel [1] http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Virtio --=20 Fingerprint: BFB3 08D6 B4D1 31B2 72B9 29CE 6696 BF1B 14E6 1D37 Powered by Debian GNU/Linux Lenny - Linux user #188.598 --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAktBvjQACgkQZpa/GxTmHTcwmgCdHhTAM3+fBcui97sQuRbvum2L 4eUAn1UqXZRNGpYSFIZvrMQZahKZTTv6 =IYcM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LyciRD1jyfeSSjG0--