Re: [Qemu-devel] memory hotplug fails with mem-merge option

[Igor Mammedov]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 16:00:07 +0530
Bharata B Rao <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:25:09AM +0530, Bharata B Rao wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When I use -machine pc,mem-merge=off|on -m 1G,slots=4,maxmem=2G, adding
> > memory-backend-ram object fails like below. Same failure is seen with
> > -machine pseries,mem-merge=on|off.
> > 
> > (qemu) object_add memory-backend-ram,id=ram0,size=1G
> > 
> > qemu-system-x86_64: util/qemu-option.c:388: qemu_opt_get_bool_helper: 
> > Assertion `opt->desc && opt->desc->type == QEMU_OPT_BOOL' failed.
> 
> Same failure seen with -machine pseries,mem-merge=off when used together with
> -object memory-backend-file on QEMU commandline in which case boot time
> failure is observed.
> 
> Regards,
> Bharata.

looks like related to 

0a7cf217 util/qemu-config: fix regression of qmp_query_command_line_options
and
49d2e64 machine: remove qemu_machine_opts global list

CCing Marcel in hope he knows how to fix it right away.