On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 at 17:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@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
