ulimit -a Penned by Siju George on 20090624 15:30.38, we have: | Hi, | | Trying to assign 512 MB memory to a qemu vrtual machine resulted in the error. | | $ sudo qemu -m 512 -hda wd0.img -hdb wd1.img -cdrom LATEST-Devel.iso | Could not map physical memory | | -m 493 works | -m 494 & -m 495 gives segmentation fault | | then other interesting data | | $ sudo qemu -m 496 -hda wd0.img -hdb wd1.img -cdrom LATEST-Devel.iso | qemu: could not open disk image wd1.img | $ sudo qemu -m 496 -hda wd0.img -hdb wd1.img -cdrom LATEST-Devel.iso | qemu: could not open disk image wd1.img | $ sudo qemu -m 497 -hda wd0.img -hdb wd1.img -cdrom LATEST-Devel.iso | qemu: could not open disk image wd1.img | $ sudo qemu -m 512 -hda wd0.img -hdb wd1.img -cdrom LATEST-Devel.iso | Could not map physical memory | $ ls | LATEST-Devel.iso qemu.core wd0.img wd1.img | $ | | Is it a bug in qemu that should be fixed? | how can I assign more than 493 MB memory for qemu virtual machines? | | Thanks | | --Siju
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