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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] force -mem-path RAM allocation
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org

We have

    -mem-path FILE  provide backing storage for guest RAM
    -mem-prealloc   preallocate guest memory (use with -mem-path)

PATCH 2/2 adds

    -mem-path-force    fail if unable to allocate RAM as specified by -mem-path

Looks like it's time to consolidate the options related to guest memory
into a single, QemuOpts-style -memory NAME=VALUE,...  What do you guys
think?