Re: [PATCH] softmmu/physmem: Improve guest memory allocation failure error message

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 17:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
> Anyhow I still see the size displayed in the error message as an
> useful hint:
>
> $ qemu-system-i386 -m 64000
> qemu-system-i386: cannot set up guest memory 'pc.ram': Cannot allocate
> memory
>
> VS:
>
> $ qemu-system-i386 -m 64000
> qemu-system-i386: Cannot set up 62.5 GiB of guest memory 'pc.ram':
> Cannot allocate memory

I hadn't spotted that we were doing the size-to-str -- I think that's
definitely helpful because it will catch cases like the one here where
the user didn't realize they were asking for 30 terabytes of RAM...

-- PMM