Hi Team

 

Is it possible to install like vmware has "vmware-tools" for linux guest like Ubuntu. I am unable to shutdown VM from unRAID portal. Please advise?

look for vertio drivers (i had the issue as well ) then i manually added all the vertio drivers (took me hours) but i can stop the VM now inside unraid webUI

 

still trying to get some stuff working though

Hi zero80472

 

Thanks will try, did you see any improvement any memory and cpu management after installing these drivers?

 

Regards

Not relly Just better compatibility but not relly sat and tested it only use it for my arma3 server (took ages to get to work) 

Hi Zero

 

Can you share with me what command you used to install vertio drivers?

There is no "tools" package for Linux guests under KVM+Qemu. However, Ubuntu versions prior to the switch to systemd will require you to install acpid for the guest to monitor ACPI events, such as the shutdown signal from the host.

Hi kode54

 

Thank you for the feedback. The issue I am currently facing is that I have a linux vm assigned with 16GB of memory. And when it is running it consumes that 16gb when under load and when in idle the vm  resumes back to normal however in the unraid gui I still see it is holding the 16GB of memory. I know from VMWare Tools in VMWare that memory ballooning is what manages this , what is the equivalent in this case?

Configuring it to balloon up to the allocated size may require special work. By default, when creating virtual machines, the XML templates will pin the memory to the configured size at all times.

Thanks kode54

 

Do you perhaps have a link i can use as reference to read up to get it to work?

http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Projects/auto-ballooning

 

This would appear to indicate that it is really only designed for over-committing the memory on the host with VMs. It won't automatically relinquish VM memory unless there is pressure from the host side, or from another VM.

Thank you kode54. I will read up on it.