balloon.md

Balloon

crosvm supports virtio-balloon for managing guest memory.

How to control the balloon size

When running a VM, specify VM_SOCKET with -s option. (example: /run/crosvm.sock)

crosvm run \
    -s ${CROSVM_SOCKET} \
    # usual crosvm args
    /path/to/bzImage

Then, open another terminal and specify the balloon size in bytes with crosvm balloon command.

crosvm balloon 4096 ${CROSVM_SOCKET}

Note: The size of balloon is managed in 4096 bytes units. The specified value will be rounded down to a multiple of 4096 bytes.

You can confirm the balloon size with crosvm balloon_stats command.

crosvm balloon_stats ${CROSVM_SOCKET}