I'm trying to use ballooning with kvm-83.
Although I'm able to limit the guest's memory, when I try to increase it right after
that, I get "vballoon: page allocation failure. order:0" followed by a kernel
panic.
Is it expected?
The guest is running Debian Lenny with 2.6.26 kernel. It had init
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I'm trying to use ballooning with kvm-83.
Although I'm able to limit the guest's memory, when I try to increase
it right after that, I get "vballoon: page allocation failure.
order:0" followed by a kernel panic.
Is it expected?
The guest is running Debian Lenny wit
Avi Kivity schrieb:
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
I'm trying to use ballooning with kvm-83.
Although I'm able to limit the guest's memory, when I try to increase
it right after that, I get "vballoon: page allocation failure.
order:0" followed by a kernel panic.
Is it expected?
The guest is run
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
BTW, is it possible to "balloon" to a bigger amount of memory that
what was available when the guest started?
No. The guest won't have its data structures set up to handle the extra
memory.
Or is it only possible to "shrink" and "grow" within initial memory
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