| Summary: | ballooning still works after stop or pause balloon service via blnsvr | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Mike Cao <bcao> |
| Component: | virtio-win | Assignee: | Vadim Rozenfeld <vrozenfe> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.3 | CC: | acathrow, bcao, bsarathy, dawu, mdeng, michen |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2012-03-01 06:06:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Mike Cao
2012-02-28 07:01:18 UTC
Hi Mike, Balloon service is not for managing balloon driver. The main purpose of blnsvr service is to provide balloon driver with the memory statistics, like soft and hard page faults, available memory, etc. Best regards, Vadim. (In reply to comment #1) > Hi Mike, > Balloon service is not for managing balloon driver. > The main purpose of blnsvr service is to provide balloon > driver with the memory statistics, like soft and hard > page faults, available memory, etc. > > Best regards, > Vadim. Hi，Vadim After install this service I still can not see the memory statistis both in qemu monitor and in qmp monitor after enable the service .I remember this works for linux guest Where Can I see the memory statistics ? Thanks, Mike (In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Hi Mike, > > Balloon service is not for managing balloon driver. > > The main purpose of blnsvr service is to provide balloon > > driver with the memory statistics, like soft and hard > > page faults, available memory, etc. > > > > Best regards, > > Vadim. > > Hi，Vadim > > After install this service > I still can not see the memory statistis both in qemu monitor and in qmp > monitor after enable the service .I remember this works for linux guest It probably not. virtio-balloon.c, lines 35,36 /* Disable guest-provided stats by now (bz#623903, bz#626544) */ #define ENABLE_GUEST_STATS 0 Best regards, Vadim. > Where Can I see the memory statistics ? > > Thanks, > Mike -#define ENABLE_GUEST_STATS 0 +#define ENABLE_GUEST_STATS 1 then compile qemu-kvm .find the memory statistics works . Thanks a lot Vadim! Close this as notabug |