Re: [PATCH v7 2/4] virtio_balloon: introduce migration primitives toballoon pages

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue Aug 14 2012 - 16:23:03 EST


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 05:08:31PM -0300, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:59:16PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > > What if there is more than one balloon device?
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to load this driver twice, or are you foreseeing a future case
> > > > where this driver will be able to manage several distinct memory balloons for
> > > > the same guest?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Second.
> > > It is easy to create several balloons they are just
> > > pci devices.
> >
> >
> >
> > and it might not be too important to make it work but
> > at least would be nice not to have a crash in this
> > setup.
> >
> Fair enough. For now, as I believe it's safe to assume we are only inflating one
> balloon per guest, I'd like to propose this as a future enhancement. Sounds
> good?
>

Since guest crashes when it's not the case, no it doesn't, sorry :(.

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