syslog "No balloon device has been activated" when running W2000

[trendco]

I still need to run an old Windows-2000 VM.
I added "balloon: 0" to the .conf File.
But when i start the VM, the syslog creates ongoing Messages:

...
Mar 17 10:32:58 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:00 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:01 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:02 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:03 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:04 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:06 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
Mar 17 10:33:07 proxmox pvedaemon[18283]: No balloon device has been activated
...

 

[davlaw]

Well I have an old 2000 still running too.

Taking a look. I see the VirIO Balloon devices, but no drivers. So they they are not working, yellow !, but I did not add any special config as you have stated.

To be honest, if I noticed it was when I imaged the machine from physical to vm. And it did not appear to affect the task I had at hand so I never gave it another thought. I just went with the defaults with minimum changes to match the old box.

 

[davlaw]

been messing with this, drivers (inf) appear to have windows 2000 info... still not able to deal with the balloon service. This machine has been running but trendco post has me looking at it again...

 

[trendco]

I just do not understand why this Error is in the log's even "balloon" is off for this VM.

 

[davlaw]

I just do not understand why this Error is in the log's even "balloon" is off for this VM.

Sorry, I hijacked this tread. Was just brainstorming.

It would seem that if you configured the VM with fixed memory it would disable it anyway, but it does not.