Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Sun August 16 2009, Dor Laor wrote: On 08/16/2009 05:18 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Sun August 16 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm guest running for a couple days

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-17 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/17/2009 01:49 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: One thing I found odd about kvm's ballooning is that it actually seems to change how much ram the guest has. I really didn't expect free -m to report that the guest only had 64M ram after I manually ballooned the ram. I was however expecting it

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Mon August 17 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/17/2009 01:49 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: One thing I found odd about kvm's ballooning is that it actually seems to change how much ram the guest has. I really didn't expect free -m to report that the guest only had 64M ram after I manually

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-17 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Sun August 16 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm guest running for a couple days, and the balloon driver was loaded, and I could manually change the amount of ram it had

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-17 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/17/2009 03:32 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Mon August 17 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/17/2009 01:49 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: One thing I found odd about kvm's ballooning is that it actually seems to change how much ram the guest has. I really didn't expect free -m to

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-16 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm guest running for a couple days, and the balloon driver was loaded, and I could manually change the amount of ram it had allocated in the console, but it never seemed

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-16 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On Sun August 16 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm guest running for a couple days, and the balloon driver was loaded, and I could manually change the amount of ram it had

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-16 Thread Avi Kivity
On 08/16/2009 05:18 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Sun August 16 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm guest running for a couple days, and the balloon driver was loaded

Re: automatic memory ballooning?

2009-08-16 Thread Dor Laor
On 08/16/2009 05:18 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: On Sun August 16 2009, Avi Kivity wrote: On 08/16/2009 12:55 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: I'm wondering if kvm supports automatic memory ballooning. I've had a kvm guest running for a couple days, and the balloon driver was loaded, and I could