Confluence on DragonFly: works, sometimes

I’ve seen Atlassian Confluence, a Java-based wiki program, in a few places.  Atlassian apparently offers their software at a discount (free?) to qualified open source projects.  I set up Confluence 5.4 on DragonFly as a test run, and it generally worked.  That’s great!  I tried to set up version 5.5, and it will not start.

May 08, 2014 7:24:41 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase startInternal
SEVERE: A child container failed during start
java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.InternalError: platform not recognized
        at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.report(FutureTask.java:122)

This is annoying. DragonFly (or any BSD) is not supported by Atlassian for Confluence, so it’s not a surprise… but I was so close! Their product has a very nice interface and I was planning to replace Mediawiki at my workplace with it, for some internal documentation. This FreeBSD bug report is the closest fix I can find, but it’s old enough it shouldn’t matter now.

How do you test a balloon memory driver?

I’ve wanted more support for virtualized DragonFly systems.  Sascha Wildner put together an experimental balloon memory driver to test out, and I ran it on two virtual machines separately, one with it loaded and one without, on the same host system.  The problem is, I can’t tell what it does.  The two machine reported almost the exact same RAM usage during a buildworld.

Any VMWare/virtualization experts out there able to tell me what needs to be tested to verify this?