> you can have > balloon: 100 > > then > qm set balloon 200 > > > 100 != 200, but it's hotpluggable. sigh - sure, should be something like: my $old_balloon_enabled = !!(!defined($conf->{balloon}) || $conf->{balloon}); my $new_balloon_enabled = !!(!defined($conf->{pending}->{balloon}) || $conf->{pending}->{balloon});