On 13 December 2011 08:14, John O'Donnell <unixjohn1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/12/2011 07:11 PM, Ottavio wrote: >> >> On 11 December 2011 09:30, John O'Donnell<unixjohn1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram >>> disk >>> and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... >> >> >> Is there any real life ARM device that supports 8G RAM? > > > I dont know. All I know is I need more than 512M. I am experimenting with > QT. Compiling it on a current Sheeva/Guru plug takes 3 days with about 2gb > of swap. If I can get more memory to toy with then it will make life so > much easier. After I get my results, I will spend the 3 days to get a > compile on hardware.
I see these two options in the qemu manual: -mem-path path Allocate guest RAM from a temporarily created file in path. -mem-prealloc Preallocate memory when using -mem-path. I have never tried. -- Ottavio qemu-users: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/qemu-users/ _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list ARMedslack@lists.armedslack.org http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack