Bug 595947

Summary:	[New Content] Balloon driver chapter
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Christopher Curran <ccurran>
Component:	doc-Virtualization_Administration_Guide	Assignee:	Scott Radvan <sradvan>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	ecs-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.1	CC:	amit.shah, drjones, jskeoch, mhideo, rlandman
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
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Description Christopher Curran 2010-05-26 00:28:37 UTC

Description of problem:
Balloon driver information for KVM is missing.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2010-06-07 15:56:07 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux Major release.  This request is not yet committed for
inclusion.

Comment 8 Amit Shah 2010-07-26 13:00:20 UTC

This is my suggestion for the text:

 + This driver can mark some part of the guest's RAM as not in use
   (balloon inflation) so that the memory can be freed for host or other
   guests' usage on that host. When the guest needs the memory again,
   the balloon can be 'deflated' and the host can give back the RAM to
   the guest.

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