Ballooning not working on windows KVM

[indyimaging]

I have a fresh install of proxmox
pve-manager/5.1-43/bdb08029 (running kernel: 4.13.13-5-pve)

I have installed memory balloon drivers
07/19/2017 61.74.104.14100

The ram reported in the OS does not match the RAM reported from the proxmox console. Any Ideas?

 

[fireon]

Work here on 50+ Windows VM's normaly. Have you also installed the windowsservice?

blnsvr.exe -i

 

[indyimaging]

Thank you for the suggestion but yes I did do the install. I used this as a guide: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Dynamic_Memory_Management

 

[fireon]

Strange. What is the Memorydifference between host and your guest? Is the baloonservice running?

 

[indyimaging]

At the moment the Task Manager in windows says 3.3GB used Proxmox says 11.1GB used

 

[Rhinox]

Q1: How did you figure that "used" in Windows?
Q2: What does "free -h" in Proxmox say?

 

[indyimaging]

Q1: How did you figure that "used" in Windows?
Q2: What does "free -h" in Proxmox say?

Task manager in windows shows 3.4 GB used.

# free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 376G 128G 29G 149M 218G 245G

But free -h shows total for the proxmox server.

The Summary tab in the proxmox web interface for the KVM shows 10.56 being used.

 

[fireon]

Is the baloonservice running?

@indyimaging You didn't answer my question.

At the moment the Task Manager in windows says 3.3GB used Proxmox says 11.1GB used

Looks likes the service is not running in windows.

 

[Rhinox]

Task manager in windows shows 3.4 GB used

My TaskManager shows "total", "cached", "available", and "free" memory. Not "used". That's why I asked how you figured it...

 

[indyimaging]

In my original response I said I used this guide. That includes running:

blnsvr.exe -i

 

[fireon]

In my original response I said I used this guide. That includes running:
blnsvr.exe -i

Yes, this install the service, but that does not mean anything that the service in Windows is really running. So go to Services scroll to balloonservice and have a look. It is running then please click on restart, is it not running (which I suspect) then start it.

 

[efeu]

Ballooning still seems to be broke and not only Windows is affected. I created a bug
https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1763