Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes: > Nikunj A Dadhania <nik...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes: > >> Current DEFAULT_RAM_SIZE(128MB) enforced by QEMU would not work for >> all machines. Introduce a default_ram_size as part of MachineClass. >> >> The below patches has following behaviour: >> >> 1) If the user does not provide "-m" option, machine's default ram >> size will be picked. >> >> 2) In case the user provides memory that is lesser than machine's >> default ram size, we upscale the ram_size to machine's >> default_ram_size. A warning is displayed for the change that qemu >> has done. > > Please do not "improve" the user's explicit order that way. Either > execute the order as is, or reject it as invalid.
If there is consensus for doing this, I can change the patches accordingly. Rejection is also change of behaviour. Because till now, a VM would start with any memory size, even if it's less that 128MB (default_ram_size). With rejection, all those VMs would fail booting displaying the warning. Is this OK? > > So far, we've always executed this order. > > [...] Regards, Nikunj
