Re: [Qemu-devel] Funny -m arguments can crash

[Blue Swirl]

On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Blue Swirl <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> 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?

There's no patch to do the check in vl.c for 8k. Lacking the patch, we
don't know exactly what is the charge level of megaphone batteries:
like Schrödinger's cat, they may be dead or fully charged.