Re: [Qemu-devel] incorrect memory size inside vm

[Piotr Rybicki <piotr.rybicki@innervision.pl>]

W dniu 2015-06-19 o 14:01, Andrey Korolyov pisze:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Piotr Rybicki
> <piotr.rybicki@innervision.pl> wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Actually it was my mistake.
>> After some time using memory in guest (find /, cp bigfine, etc), res size of
>> qemu process shrinks to expected value.
>>
>> Sorry for disturbing.
>> Now i don't see any memory waste in guest and host when using 'base' memory
>> + 'dimm' memory.
>>
>> Although i have one issue.
>>
>> When i start qemu via libvirt with 16GB mem and 1G current mem:
>> (...)
>>    <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>
>>    <currentMemory unit='KiB'>1048576</currentMemory>
>> (...)
>>
>> Qemu starts, and balloon can't free memmory, so guest doesn't boot (It hangs
>> or is looped in ' virtio_balloon virtio2: Out of puff! Can't get 1 pages').
>> I think this is because dimm memmory is not yet onlined, and balloon already
>> tries to shring memory in guest.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Piotr Rybicki
>>
>>
> - libvir@
>
> Please don`t top-post in technical mailing lists. Do you have a
> crashkernel-reserved area there in the boot arguments? What
> distro/guest kernel are running in this guest and what is dimm
> configuration?
>

Hi.

No, I don't have a crashkernel reserved area.

But I've solved my problem. I load virtio-balloon device as a module 
(previously it was kernel built-in), and everything is working as expected.

Thank You for Your attention.

Best regards
Piotr Rybicki