balloon

I have virtio ballooning enabled in a few Windows Hosts that have allocated significant amounts of memory (64-128GB), however, most of that memory is not needed 99% of the running time, only for one off weekly tasks. I would like to reclaim that memory, but it seems that the way that Proxmox...

Dear PVE Team, I hope this message finds you well. I'd like to inquire about plans for future improvements to the Auto Balloon feature in PVE. Going through the code, I get that the current implementation seems to make memory adjustments based on host memory usage, with the logic being: 1...

Greetings everyone. I know this topic has been discussed a couple of times, however none of the solutions provided has worked with my configuration. The machine was originally imported from EXSi and it currently is 100% operative. My only issue is that the proxmox monitor is unable to read...

Hi, everyone. I am using windows server 2025(like windows 11) as as VM in PVE. I installed virtio-win-gt-x64 and wirtio-win-guest-tools. But the balloon still dont work. I have 512G memory in host and set "16G min, 128G max and balloon on" to VM. The VM always use 128G after start. I type "info...

Hello, Pardon me, as I am sure this is common knowledge for many PVE users. For me, it took many frustrating hours to find the fix, so I will document it here as I have not seen this particular problem/solution laid out explicitly elsewhere. This video from the PVE team documents the fix but...

Hi, I am running OPNsense in Proxmox and I would like to get the balloon driver working properly so I can get correct memory readings in Proxmox. Right now for example Proxmox reports 3.35GB/4GB while OPNsense itself reports only 740MB is used. I have searched a lot online and found some...

Hi, I have a debian 7.11 guest using KVM and have a "balloon" memory set for it. The problem is, that the RAM usage in proxmox is always at max. If i run free -m from the guest I see the half of the memory is cached. # free -m total used free shared buffers...