And the opposite question, can memory balloon be deallocated?? And is
it possible to do this automatically or is an error to do this??
I think your understanding of ballooning may be backwards. The purpose
of the balloon driver is to give the host system a way of recovering
memory from the
The balloon driver allows guests to express to the hypervisor how much
memory they require. The balloon driver allows the host to efficiently
allocate memory to the guest and allow free memory to be allocated to
other guests and processes.
Guests using the balloon driver can mark sections of
