Re: [Xen-users] How to know if the balloon driver is running

[napster <Alain.Tchana@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for your reply Ian.

Alain

On 27/01/2014 11:00, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 11:09 +0100, napster wrote:
> > Hi Ian,
> >
> > So let me see if I understand you correctly. If the CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON
> > is enabled (as in my case),
> > root@xxxx# grep CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON /boot/config-3.8.0-35-generic
> > CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON=y
> > CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=y
> > then the balloon driver is automatically started at boot time by the
> > domU.
> AFAIK the balloon driver is started if you just have CONFIG_XEN.
>
> LIke I said before CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON enables additional support for
> controlling the balloon driver from within the guest (as opposed to from
> the host toolstack).
>
> > Finally, regarding the files
> > in /sys/devices/system/xen_memory/xen_memory0/selfballoon (inside the
> > domU), are they used by the balloon driver or the selfballoon daemon?
> I'd say from the name that it is clearly the selfballoon driver.
>
> Ian.

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