ballooning; memory management; overcommit

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    Proxmox 8.3 memory management

    Hi, I've spin the 2 VM with configure of max 40GB and underlying hardware memory is also 40 GB. Unfortunately the power on vm getting powered off and vice-versa. Is there any option to avoid such scenario. I've installed the balloon driver as well but memory didn't release properly. Since it...
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    Windows VM's memory management compatibility: Let's make Windows memory management better!

    Hello Proxmox Community, I am addressing a longstanding and widely experienced issue where memory freed by the VirtIO balloon driver in Windows VMs isn't reflected in the Proxmox host's memory usage statistics. Despite successful ballooning shown within the VM, the host reports full RAM...
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    Ballooning problem

    Hi, I have a problem with memory management. PVE 7.3-3, VM guest Windows server 2016. The newest Virtio driver installed (January 2023). When the balloon is on, Windows consuming all memory. In my case 20GB RAM. The system itself has low utilization. No service is running that would cause a...
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    Memory Ballooning

    I have a Proxmox 6.0-4 host with 32 GB of memory. I have two guest machines, each that will do work and I want to be able to share the RAM between them. Neither machine will be using 100% of the RAM at a time. So my goal is to configure each one with a Max of 28 GB of RAM, and the minimum of 4...
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    Memory Ballooning not working

    Hi all. I am having problems with memory because internally I see it just has 4GB total and few memory available http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1471626760.png while it is configured to "Automatically allocate memory within 1 and 6 GB" . My question is: how it is supposed memory...
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    [SOLVED] Windows 10 VM

    Hallo, gemäß dieser Anleitung wurde eine VM für Microsoft Windows 10 in Proxmox eingerichtet: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Windows_10_guest_best_practices#Install_additional_VirtIO_drivers_on_running_System Aufällig ist, dass in der Anleitung explizit die Treiber für Windows 8.1 installiert...
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    Questions about ballooning

    Hi, I'm wondering about how Ballooning actually used in Proxmox. Scenario: I'm a quite experienced system administrator, but proxmox is new for me. I have a setup with two servers using proxmox ve 4.1 in Non-HA Clustermode with 2 regular nodes and one dummy node for quorum with drbd on the...