From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52907) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPRD-0008TR-R2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:59:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPR7-0007pL-TW for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:59:55 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53474) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TiPR7-0007pE-Lf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 07:59:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:59:47 -0200 From: Luiz Capitulino Message-ID: <20121211105947.1b92f411@doriath.home> In-Reply-To: <24E144B8C0207547AD09C467A8259F755787AC78@lisa.maurer-it.com> References: <1355168173-14571-1-git-send-email-lcapitulino@redhat.com> <24E144B8C0207547AD09C467A8259F7557870AEE@lisa.maurer-it.com> <20121211094513.29fa32bd@doriath.home> <24E144B8C0207547AD09C467A8259F755787AC78@lisa.maurer-it.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] re-enable balloon stats List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dietmar Maurer Cc: "aliguori@us.ibm.com" , "agl@us.ibm.com" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com" On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:29:01 +0000 Dietmar Maurer wrote: > > > Can't we enable stat queries by default (10s interval), > > > > I'm not sure I like this for two reasons. First, there will be cases where the > > user doesn't want this to be enabled. Second, we'll be forcing an interval on > > users. > > So when should we set the stats-polling-interval? I first thought I simply > set that at VM start, but that triggers an error: > > "guest doesn't support balloon stats" > > because the balloon driver is not loaded. Yes, it's required to have the balloon driver loaded. The stats are reported by it.