[CentOS-virt] Xen Balloon Driver on PVHVM CentOS6

Mon Jul 15 19:44:55 UTC 2013
Rushikesh Jadhav <2rushikeshj at gmail.com>

Hi List,

It seems that the xen balloon functionality for guest is not enabled in
CentOS 3.4.50-8.el6 xen kernel by default via centos-release-xen.x86_64
repo. I think this should have been present since this extra Xen repo needs
to support as both Guest and Host (Dom0).

The kernel had to be recompiled with CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING.
How can I request to make it default enable in centos repo ? or is there
any reason to not have it default ?

Thanks.



On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Rushikesh Jadhav <2rushikeshj at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I'm trying to work out the balloon driver on CentOS6 HVM but it seems to
> be not working with default 2.6.32 or newer 3.4 kernel.
>
> Does balloon driver work on HVM linux guests with Linux Kernel 3.4 from
> centos repo ?
>
> PV is fine and is able to balloon.
>
> My host is Xen 4.1.2 with dom0 as 3.4.46-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64
> My guest is CentOS6.4 with kernel 3.4.46-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64
>
> Please have a look at below guest logs,
> [root at hvmc6 ~]# uname -a Linux hvmc6 3.4.50-8.el6.centos.alt.x86_64 #1
> SMP Fri Jun 21 03:14:22 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> [root at hvmc6 ~]# xenstore-ls memory initial-reservation = "1193984"
> initial-target = "1048576" static-max = "16777216" target = "1048576"
> dynamic-min = "1048576" dynamic-max = "1048576" memory-offset = "-258100"
> [root at hvmc6 ~]# dmesg | grep -i balloon xen/balloon: Initialising balloon
> driver. xen-balloon: Initialising balloon driver.
> [root at hvmc6 ~]# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 463
> 221 241 0 24 13 -/+ buffers/cache: 184 278 Swap: 9987 7 9980
>
>
> When I try to set it manually from host, I get
> # xl mem-set 229 2049 xc: error: do_memory_op: WARNING: op=16 not
> converted to safe ioctls: Internal error
>
> Anyone has made CentOS6 PVHVM work with ballooning on Xen ?
>
> Thanks.
> Rushikesh
>
>
>
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