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Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash
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Markus Armbruster |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Jul 2012 14:56:49 +0200 |
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Blue Swirl <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Blue Swirl <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Markus Armbruster
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Asking for "funny" memory sizes sometimes crashes for me. For instance
>>>> -m 0.8 or the equivalent -m 838860b. -m 0.7 appears to work.
>>>>
>>>> Should we round memory sizes? How? Where?
>>>
>>> We had a discussion about this recently:
>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-06/msg02800.html
>>
>> I missed that, thanks!
>>
>> Unfortunately, the thread petered out without a conclusion. What now?
>
> There's no patch to do the check in vl.c for 8k. Lacking the patch, we
> don't know exactly what is the charge level of megaphone batteries:
> like Schrödinger's cat, they may be dead or fully charged.
What would you like me to do? Round argument of -m up to next multiple
of 8KiB?