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

[Dietmar Maurer]

> >>I guess we need buffer stats do work effectively. And worse, it seems
> >>the windows driver does not return any stats.
> 
> Are you sure ? because source code seem to get all balloon stats
> (VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_IN,VIRTIO_BALLOON_S_SWAP_OUT,VIRTIO_BAL
> LOON_S_MEMFREE...)
> https://github.com/YanVugenfirer/kvm-guest-drivers-
> windows/blob/master/Balloon/app/memstat.cpp
> 
> I'll restest it.

No, I am not sure (only done a quick look at the source code). Please retest.
 
> (But It can be easily extended to get some other counters,it's just using a wmi
> query to get perf counters)
> 
> 
> >>Yes ;-) So lets try the guest-agent (we need that anyways).
> 
> Yes!
> (Note,I'm looking code of qemu-ga for windows, it's pretty poor, only
> shutdown/power feature seem to be implemented currently. (Not sure we
> can execute command)

We can contribute some improvements ;-)