From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (firstgate.proxmox.com [212.224.123.68]) by lore.proxmox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18CDE1FF145 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2026 13:52:11 +0100 (CET) Received: from firstgate.proxmox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by firstgate.proxmox.com (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 0945AF829; Thu, 5 Feb 2026 13:52:44 +0100 (CET) From: Maximiliano Sandoval To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com Subject: [PATCH qemu-server 2/2] config: document default balloon behavior Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2026 13:52:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20260205125208.311721-3-m.sandoval@proxmox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: <20260205125208.311721-1-m.sandoval@proxmox.com> References: <20260205125208.311721-1-m.sandoval@proxmox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Bm-Milter-Handled: 55990f41-d878-4baa-be0a-ee34c49e34d2 X-Bm-Transport-Timestamp: 1770295851576 X-SPAM-LEVEL: Spam detection results: 0 AWL 0.086 Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address BAYES_00 -1.9 Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% DMARC_MISSING 0.1 Missing DMARC policy KAM_DMARC_STATUS 0.01 Test Rule for DKIM or SPF Failure with Strict Alignment RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_CERTIFIED_BLOCKED 0.001 ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to Validity was blocked. See https://knowledge.validity.com/hc/en-us/articles/20961730681243 for more information. RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED 0.001 ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to Validity was blocked. See https://knowledge.validity.com/hc/en-us/articles/20961730681243 for more information. RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED 0.001 ADMINISTRATOR NOTICE: The query to Validity was blocked. See https://knowledge.validity.com/hc/en-us/articles/20961730681243 for more information. SPF_HELO_NONE 0.001 SPF: HELO does not publish an SPF Record SPF_PASS -0.001 SPF: sender matches SPF record Message-ID-Hash: 3BSVGO55XLJWVSNSLTBN2HF6NU527LRO X-Message-ID-Hash: 3BSVGO55XLJWVSNSLTBN2HF6NU527LRO X-MailFrom: m.sandoval@proxmox.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; loop; banned-address; emergency; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.10 Precedence: list List-Id: Proxmox VE development discussion List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: The behavior for this key is the following: - balloning=0: Disabled - Not defined in the config: Enabled - balloning=N: Enabled, and target memory set to N MiB Instead of special-casing balloning=1 (or turning it into a property string) to enable the drive without setting a target memory size, we simply document the current behavior better. Signed-off-by: Maximiliano Sandoval --- src/PVE/QemuServer.pm | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm index 08cb6b98..0395c85b 100644 --- a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm +++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm @@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ my $confdesc = { optional => 1, type => 'integer', description => - "Amount of target RAM for the VM in MiB. Using zero disables the balloon driver.", + "Amount of target RAM for the VM in MiB. The balloon driver is enabled by default, " + . "unless it is explicitly disabled by setting zero as value.", minimum => 0, }, shares => { -- 2.47.3