I wrote: "The physical memory map on versatile hardware does not allow more than 256MB of space for RAM. The bug here is just that qemu should exit with a helpful error message"
...and I've just submitted the following two patches upstream which implement this: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/87807/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/87806/ so passing '-M versatilepb -m 512' to qemu-system-arm results in it failing cleanly with the message: qemu: maximum permitted RAM size for 'versatilepb' is 256M -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/570588 Title: qemu-system-arm can not handle more than 256M in versatile machine mode using the -m option -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
