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Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:00:07 +0530
From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] memory hotplug fails with mem-merge option
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Cc: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:25:09AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I use -machine pc,mem-merge=off|on -m 1G,slots=4,maxmem=2G, adding
> memory-backend-ram object fails like below. Same failure is seen with
> -machine pseries,mem-merge=on|off.
> 
> (qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=ram0,size=1G
> 
> qemu-system-x86_64: util/qemu-option.c:388: qemu_opt_get_bool_helper: Assertion `opt->desc && opt->desc->type == QEMU_OPT_BOOL' failed.

Same failure seen with -machine pseries,mem-merge=off when used together with
-object memory-backend-file on QEMU commandline in which case boot time
failure is observed.

Regards,
Bharata.