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Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash
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Blue Swirl |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash |
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Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:05:41 +0000 |
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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?
Yes please, maybe with a notice to the user.