Add ballooning infrastructure.
authoraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:19:35 +0000 (20:19 +0000)
committeraliguori <aliguori@c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162>
Thu, 4 Dec 2008 20:19:35 +0000 (20:19 +0000)
commitdf751fa8bfed4408ca091a7badd75c5ab80f71de
tree5c45ae730f07c0ffc2057778a2ebd1c1419ac5a3
parent8d371d4bceb308c29a5db4c21c984e06c9d56371
Add ballooning infrastructure.

Balloon devices allow you to ask the guest to allocate memory.  This allows you
to release that memory.  It's mostly useful for freeing up large chunks of
memory from cooperative guests.

Ballooning is supported by both Xen and VirtIO.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@5873 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162
monitor.c
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