[pve-devel] [PATCH] add print_pci_addr

Dietmar Maurer dietmar at proxmox.com
Thu Sep 15 11:31:54 CEST 2011


> with libvirt, vm is started with max memory, and directly reduce to
> current_memory.
> I don't think it's possible just with the qemu launch command.
> 
> so,
> launch vm with memory to max host memory : 64GB by exemple, and just after
> vm launch, launch qemu monitor command to reduce memory to 2GB by
> exemple.

Yes, sounds like a good plan.

> 
> But i don't know what happen if guest vm don't have balloon device driver
> (maybe it will take all the memory, can be dangerous....)

Don't we get an error when the balloon command does not work?

- Dietmar


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