On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: > Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> Blue Swirl <blauwir...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Markus Armbruster >>>> <arm...@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? >> >> 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. > > What would you like me to do? Round argument of -m up to next multiple > of 8KiB?
Yes please, maybe with a notice to the user.