Ballooning device problems

cshifer12

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Jun 8, 2025
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I have 64 GB RAM and 2 VMs with 20 GB each. The problem is that if i enable balloon device for these VMs it somehow does not work.

Both VMs are debian, they both have virtio balloon driver installed. When i configure minimum 8 GB and max 20 GB. Whenever inside VM usage is 8 GB it slows down a lot. I had to turn off balloon and it uses all 40 GB right away.