Re: [libvirt] memory-ballooning side-channel attack

2017-01-08 Thread bancfc
On 2016-12-27 03:51, ban...@openmailbox.org wrote: Hello and Happy Holidays, In the past few years many serious attacks against the memory deduplication (KSM) feature of all hypervisors have been shown. [1] Even allowing attackers to modify/steal APT keys and source lists on the host. [2] Since

[libvirt] memory-ballooning side-channel attack

2016-12-26 Thread bancfc
Hello and Happy Holidays, In the past few years many serious attacks against the memory deduplication (KSM) feature of all hypervisors have been shown. [1] Even allowing attackers to modify/steal APT keys and source lists on the host. [2] Since its not enabled by default the fall out is relati

Re: [libvirt] memory ballooning and nova

2015-03-05 Thread Raymond Durand
Ok thanks. Regards, 2015-03-05 20:45 GMT+01:00 Daniel P. Berrange : > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:38:46AM +0100, Raymond Durand wrote: > > Thanks. > > > > Is it possible to enable/disable which parameters are triggered by Nova > on > > Libvirt? ie. > > -device virtio-balloon > > -pci-device isa-s

Re: [libvirt] memory ballooning and nova

2015-03-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:38:46AM +0100, Raymond Durand wrote: > Thanks. > > Is it possible to enable/disable which parameters are triggered by Nova on > Libvirt? ie. > -device virtio-balloon > -pci-device isa-serial No, these are a standard part of Nova Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.c

Re: [libvirt] memory ballooning and nova

2015-02-25 Thread Raymond Durand
rt memory ballooning managed by nova in OpenStack Juno? > > > > Is Libvirt memory ballooning independent from the OpenStack "RAM > > allocation ratio"? and allow a VM to expand (page out) even though the > > overall RAM allocation ratio is already at his maximum? > &

Re: [libvirt] memory ballooning and nova

2015-02-25 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 11:27:23AM +0100, Raymond Durand wrote: > Is Libvirt memory ballooning managed by nova in OpenStack Juno? > > Is Libvirt memory ballooning independent from the OpenStack "RAM > allocation ratio"? and allow a VM to expand (page out) even though the &g

[libvirt] memory ballooning and nova

2015-02-25 Thread Raymond Durand
Is Libvirt memory ballooning managed by nova in OpenStack Juno? Is Libvirt memory ballooning independent from the OpenStack "RAM allocation ratio"? and allow a VM to expand (page out) even though the overall RAM allocation ratio is already at his maximum? Thanks, Regards, -- libvir-li

[libvirt] Memory Ballooning for VM Issue

2012-08-07 Thread xuanmao_001
Hi, I have some problems with qemu ballooning. I saw the qemu docs. I found the qemu monitor command "balloon" that can request VM to change its memory allocation to value(in MB). it requested qemu command line with "-balloon virtio", then I start qemu into monitor mode with memory 512MB. first

[libvirt] Memory ballooning

2010-10-21 Thread Jaromír Červenka
Hello, is there any possibility to use something like "self-ballooning" in KVM guests? Is there any script/apps which can get actual memory usage from guest and send balloon command to host? Thank you, Jaromir. -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman