Re: On guest free page hinting and OOM

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Fri Mar 29 2019 - 12:09:34 EST


On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 04:37:46PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Just so we understand each other. What you mean with "appended to guest
> memory" is "append to the guest memory size", not actually "append
> memory via virtio-balloon", like adding memory regions and stuff.
>
> Instead of "-m 4G" you would do "-m 5G -device virtio-balloon,hint_size=1G".

Right.