[pve-devel] pve-manager : expose balloon to gui

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >>But for me this only makes sense if we do not need a daemon inside the
> >>guest, and qemu can handle ballooning itself (no 'momd').
> 
> I'm not a big fan of automatic memory management (because it's a complex
> thing), but why not.
> I'm not sure a single qemu process can manage it easily, because it need to
> known if you can reclaim space from another qemu,or if host have enough
> memory free.

The MOM Ballooning Policy does not look very complex. But if we can't implement it
inside qemu, we can still use pvestatd.

But we first need to know if/how we can get stats from the guest?