From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: John Florian <1707297@bugs.launchpad.net>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1707297] [NEW] qemu became more picky parsing -m option
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:34:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shhd9f89.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <150127405114.4205.4905957472648540492.malonedeb@gac.canonical.com> (John Florian's message of "Fri, 28 Jul 2017 20:34:11 -0000")
John Florian <1707297@bugs.launchpad.net> writes:
> Public bug reported:
>
> With qemu-kvm-2.9.0-3.fc26.x86_64 I am no longer to specify the memory
> size using something like "-m 1.00000GiB" but with qemu-
> kvm-2.7.1-7.fc25.x86_64 I could without any problem. I now get an error
> message like:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64: -m 1.00000GiB: Parameter 'size' expects a non-negative number below 2^64
> Optional suffix k, M, G, T, P or E means kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-
> and exabytes, respectively.
>
>
> Is this expected or a regression?
We recognize suffix "G". Before commit 75cdcd1 (v2.9.0), trailing
garbage after a recognized suffix was silently ignored. "1.0G",
"1.0GiB", "1.0Garbage-trucks-of-RAM" were all the same to QEMU. No
more.
All clear?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-31 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-28 20:34 [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1707297] [NEW] qemu became more picky parsing -m option John Florian
2017-07-31 8:34 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2017-07-31 12:39 ` Eric Blake
2017-07-31 13:28 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-07-31 13:09 ` [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1707297] " John Florian
2020-09-26 17:04 ` Thomas Huth
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