When starting the VM the guest balloon driver is not loaded at that time. We need to ask numad for placement of the complete VM. --- src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c index 7a30a5e..079f062 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_process.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_process.c @@ -3684,7 +3684,7 @@ int qemuProcessStart(virConnectPtr conn, (vm->def->numatune.memory.placement_mode == VIR_NUMA_TUNE_MEM_PLACEMENT_MODE_AUTO)) { nodeset = virNumaGetAutoPlacementAdvice(vm->def->vcpus, - vm->def->mem.cur_balloon); + vm->def->mem.max_balloon); if (!nodeset) goto cleanup; -- 1.8.3.2