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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v8 01/17] Convert -mem-path to QemuOpts and
 add prealloc and share properties
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Il 17/02/2014 14:04, Antonios Motakis ha scritto:
>
>     Hmm in that case, let's not add prealloc as a property here.
>     Stick to existing flag for that, this way we don't need
>     to support 3 ways to do this.
>
>
> We'll remove the prealloc property then for the next version.
>
> Otherwise, I wonder if the long term memdev discussion can impose
> additional constraints on our current implementation. It seems to me
> that this shouldn't be the case, right?

No, on the contrary it will be more flexible.  Just this patch will be 
dropped and a different command-line will be required on your part.

Paolo