Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] re-enable balloon stats

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:29:01 +0000
Dietmar Maurer <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > Can't we enable stat queries by default (10s interval),
> > 
> > I'm not sure I like this for two reasons. First, there will be cases where 
> > the
> > user doesn't want this to be enabled. Second, we'll be forcing an interval 
> > on
> > users.
> 
> So when should we set the stats-polling-interval? I first thought I simply
> set that at VM start, but that triggers an error:
> 
> "guest doesn't support balloon stats"
> 
> because the balloon driver is not loaded.

Yes, it's required to have the balloon driver loaded. The stats are
reported by it.