This sounds like you need to adjust the libvirtd apparmor profile.
Edit
/etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/libvirt-qemu
and add the following line:
/usr/bin/kvm-balloon rmix,
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kvm memory ballooning is unusable in Lucid
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579723
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