ram usage sharing between lxc(ubuntu),vm(windows),host

[ilia987]

I assume that this is impossible, but ill ask this anyway.

i need to put one lxc (ubuntu) and one vm on each host (for large computational tasks) somtiems we need windows and sometimes we need linux
the problem that the VM need to have all the ram prealocation and not freed when not in use.

is it possible to free it the ram is not in used?

 

[Stefan_R]

A container automatically shares unused RAM with the host. For a VM you need to enable ballooning (Hardware -> Memory) and install the latest ballooning driver in the guest (from virtio in Windows, Linux comes with support built in).

 

[ilia987]

i installed virtio and enable the flag, but the system still uses all ram and it is not shared
i see "BalloonService " running on windows

 

[Stefan_R]

How did you determine that RAM isn't shared? Also, what the balloon driver does is allow the Windows guest to voluntarily give up some memory it's not using to the host, if you're actually using all the RAM in the guest, it of course can't be shared.

 

[ilia987]

the proxmox host had the same ram usage as before:
the max ram available to the vm was marked as used, even when the vm used around 1% of the ram

 

[Stefan_R]

If there's no memory pressure the kernel might decide to let the VM keep the memory. Or your guest OS might be doing some aggressive caching. There's a heap of things to go wrong, without any logs, VM configs, 'pveversion -v' output, in general any more detailed configs its very hard to say...