Bug 524297

Summary: F11 virt-manager doesn't allow KVM memory ballooning
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Hollis Blanchard <hollis>
Component: virt-managerAssignee: Cole Robinson <crobinso>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 11CC: berrange, crobinso, hbrock, markmc, virt-maint
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Fixed In Version: 0.7.0-7.fc11 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Hollis Blanchard 2009-09-18 18:42:27 UTC
Description of problem:
The memory allocation field of virt-manager is disabled while a KVM guest is running.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-0.6.2-17.fc11.i586
virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
Always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start KVM guest.
2. Run lspci in the guest to verify virtio-balloon device ("00:05.0 RAM memory: Qumranet, Inc. Virtio memory balloon") is present.
3. In virt-manager, click Details tab, then Memory.

Actual results:
Current allocation field is grayed out.

Expected results:
Current allocation field would allow user to change guest memory allocation (triggering balloon action in the guest).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Mark McLoughlin 2009-09-21 17:16:15 UTC
Okay, AFAIK this is fixed in Fedora 12 and the problem in Fedora 11 is some xen specific hack:

  def is_memory_hotplug_capable(self):
   ...
   # Running paravirt guests can change it, or any inactive guest
   if self.vm.OSType() == "linux" \
      or self.status() not in [libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_RUNNING,\
                               libvirt.VIR_DOMAIN_PAUSED]:
        return True

Cole: feel free to close as fixed in rawhide if you don't think it'd be easy to fix in F11

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2009-10-05 19:27:08 UTC
virt-manager-0.7.0-7.fc11 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 11.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/virt-manager-0.7.0-7.fc11

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2009-10-07 03:15:17 UTC
virt-manager-0.7.0-7.fc11 has been pushed to the Fedora 11 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.