Re: [Qemu-devel] Memory: how to determine the max memory size of one VM?

[Paul Brook]

> There's two slightly different scenarios to consider here:
> 
> i) User specifies command line options that cannot possibly work.
> => Ideally, yeah, we should just provide an understandable error message
> and exit with error code.
> 
> ii) Some tracing of mine indicates QEMU has a highly dynamic memory
> usage during runtime, be it due to network layer, block layer or
> whatever exactly.

We do? Significant compared to the size of guest ram?  That sounds like a bug.
I know I've nacked patches before (particularly SCSI ones) because they 
allocarted memory proportional to the size of the guest block device request.

Paul