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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Asking for "funny" memory sizes sometimes crashes for me.  For instance
>> -m 0.8 or the equivalent -m 838860b.  -m 0.7 appears to work.
>>
>> Should we round memory sizes?  How?  Where?
>
> We had a discussion about this recently:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2012-06/msg02800.html

I missed that, thanks!

Unfortunately, the thread petered out without a conclusion.  What now?