From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40433) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLV4-0000JF-2b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:33:16 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLUv-0001l1-35 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:33:06 -0500 Received: from mail-wi0-x22b.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::22b]:56118) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XlLUu-0001kv-TU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 12:32:57 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f171.google.com with SMTP id q5so7173951wiv.4 for ; Mon, 03 Nov 2014 09:32:56 -0800 (PST) Sender: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <5457BC43.5020403@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 18:32:51 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1414773522-7756-1-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> <1414773522-7756-4-git-send-email-imammedo@redhat.com> <54576C56.9040704@redhat.com> <20141103180013.5b4e2831@igors-macbook-pro.local> In-Reply-To: <20141103180013.5b4e2831@igors-macbook-pro.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/11] pc: check if KVM has enough memory slots for DIMM devices List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Igor Mammedov Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com On 03/11/2014 18:00, Igor Mammedov wrote: >> > This will always be off by 4 or so due to system RAM and ROM slots. I >> > think patch 1 is enough. > The goal of this patch is to prevent starting guest with not supported > amount of lots requested on CLI with -m slots=too_much, patch 1 won't > prevent user from it. Understood. But I think -m slots=too_much is not an important problem. What is problematic is filling those slots, which patch 1 will help with. Paolo