[vbox-dev] How to test memory ballloon ?

[Andreas Löffler]

Hello Hans,

please have a look at the manual, section 4.9.1 "Memory ballooning" and
commands like

VBoxManage controlvm "VM name" guestmemoryballoon <n>

VBoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --guestmemoryballoon <n>

There is also a frontend called VBoxBalloonCtrl in our tree which can be
used to control those values. This also could act as an example about
how to use ballooning / the API.

Hope this helps,
Andreas





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On 25.07.2017 11:40, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to test the (Linux guest) memory balloon code.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to explicitly make the host request
> the guest to give up some memory through the balloon ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Hans
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