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From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Disabling mergeable rx buffers for the guest
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:42:46 +0100
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:40:28AM +0000, Naor Shlomo wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> For some unknown reason it suddenly started to accept the changes to the XML and the strings you gave me are now in place.
> Upon machine start I now receive the following error messages:
> 
> virsh # start NaorDev
> error: Failed to start domain NaorDev
> error: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: kvm: -global: requires an argument
> 
> Here's the XML:
> 

>   <qemu:commandline>
>     <qemu:arg value='-global'/>
>     <qemu:env name='mrg_rxbuf' value='off'/>
>   </qemu:commandline>

Presumably what you wanted to do was

   <qemu:commandline>
     <qemu:arg value='-global'/>
     <qemu:arg value='mrg_rxbuf=off'/>
   </qemu:commandline>

Rather than setting an environment variable.

Regards,
Daniel
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