From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45923) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzf4-0000XH-Tb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:10:39 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzez-0004YT-RH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:10:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:52314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ebzez-0004Xa-L0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:10:33 -0500 From: Eduardo Habkost Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:09:45 -0200 Message-Id: <20180118021000.27203-5-ehabkost@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20180118021000.27203-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> References: <20180118021000.27203-1-ehabkost@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/19] qemu-options: document memory-backend-ram List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum , Stefan Hajnoczi From: Stefan Hajnoczi The documentation should mention -object memory-backend-ram. Suggested-by: Yumei Huang Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Message-Id: <20171128161529.3025-3-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost --- qemu-options.hx | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx index fe8c04f644..5b0ee43b18 100644 --- a/qemu-options.hx +++ b/qemu-options.hx @@ -4025,6 +4025,13 @@ restrict memory allocation to the given host node list interleave memory allocations across the given host node list @end table +@item -object memory-backend-ram,id=@var{id},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},size=@var{size},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave} + +Creates a memory backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM. +Memory backend objects offer more control than the @option{-m} option that is +traditionally used to define guest RAM. Please refer to +@option{memory-backend-file} for a description of the options. + @item -object rng-random,id=@var{id},filename=@var{/dev/random} Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from -- 2.14.3