CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON: VMware Balloon Driver

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON:

• prompt: VMware Balloon Driver
• type: tristate
• depends on: CONFIG_VMWARE_VMCI && CONFIG_X86 && CONFIG_HYPERVISOR_GUEST
• defined in drivers/misc/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 2.6.34–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• modules built: vmw_balloon, vmware_balloon

Help text

This is VMware physical memory management driver which acts like a "balloon" that can be inflated to reclaim physical pages by reserving them in the guest and invalidating them in the monitor, freeing up the underlying machine pages so they can be allocated to other guests. The balloon can also be deflated to allow the guest to use more physical memory.

If unsure, say N.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called vmw_balloon.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb fs "balloon-vmware" : CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON : drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c # in 5.3–5.19, 5.19+HEAD
• lkddb module vmw_balloon CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON : drivers/misc/Kconfig : "VMware Balloon Driver" # in 2.6.36–2.6.39, 3.0–3.19, 4.0–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• lkddb module vmware_balloon CONFIG_VMWARE_BALLOON : drivers/misc/Kconfig : "VMware Balloon Driver" # in 2.6.34–2.6.35

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