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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [patch 0/2] force -mem-path RAM allocation
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Il 08/10/2013 09:32, Markus Armbruster ha scritto:
> We have
> 
>     -mem-path FILE  provide backing storage for guest RAM
>     -mem-prealloc   preallocate guest memory (use with -mem-path)
> 
> PATCH 2/2 adds
> 
>     -mem-path-force    fail if unable to allocate RAM as specified by -mem-path
> 
> Looks like it's time to consolidate the options related to guest memory
> into a single, QemuOpts-style -memory NAME=VALUE,...  What do you guys
> think?

Yes, we can use "-numa memory" (or "-numa mem") that Wanlong Gao is
adding.  We can add path=, preallocate= and force= options there.

Paolo