Do you have the overt-guest-agent running on your VMs? It’s required for ballooning to control allocations on the guest side.
> On Jun 12, 2019, at 11:32 AM, Strahil <hunter86...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hello All, > > as a KVM user I know how usefull is the memory balloon and how you can both > increase - and also decrease memory live (both Linux & Windows). > I have noticed that I cannot decrease the memory in oVirt. > > Does anyone got a clue why the situation is like that ? > > I was expecting that the guaranteed memory is the minimum to which the > balloon driver will not go bellow, but when I put my host under pressure - > the host just started to swap instead of reducing some of the VM memory (and > my VMs had plenty of free space). > > It will be great if oVirt can decrease the memory (if the VM has unallocated > memory) when the host is under pressure and the VM cannot be relocated. > > Best Regards, > Strahil Nikolov > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- users@ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/site/privacy-policy/ > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/users@ovirt.org/message/LUWCN2MLNTDJUEZBCTVXFMVABGPUSEFH/
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