The virDomainGetXMLDesc and virDomainGetInfo APIs for QEMU suffer from needing to run 'query-balloon' to update the balloon level. This has caused us performance problems and even worse caused us to lock up on a dead QEMU.
The following two patches to QEMU add a BALLOON_EVENT and a query-events command to QMP. With those two parts, we can avoiding running the query-balloon command at all. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-05/msg02215.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-05/msg02255.html -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
