Re: Remove qemu_alloc_physram()

Avi Kivity
2009-05-29T08:35:08Z

Ryan Harper wrote:
> This patch restores -mempath working for me on latest qemu-kvm.git.
>

Thanks for confirming.

> btw, why'd we go from -mem-path (kvm-84/stable) to -mempath (kvm-85 and
> newer)? Changing these breaks existing scripts. Not a big deal, but
> wondering what was the motivation for the change.
>

It was accidental. Upstream moved the command line options definitions
to a different file, and when I merged I didn't move over this option
correctly. Code written during a merge is often of substandard quality.

I'll fix it up.

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