Otherwise, starting any guest on a non-Linux guests results in qemu-system-arm: Couldn't set property 'merge' on 'memory-backend-ram': Invalid argument
Cc: Michal Privoznik <mpriv...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- hw/core/machine.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/core/machine.c b/hw/core/machine.c index 77a356f232f..a0ee43ca5c0 100644 --- a/hw/core/machine.c +++ b/hw/core/machine.c @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ #include "hw/loader.h" #include "qapi/error.h" #include "qapi/qapi-visit-machine.h" +#include "qemu/madvise.h" #include "qom/object_interfaces.h" #include "sysemu/cpus.h" #include "sysemu/sysemu.h" @@ -1129,7 +1130,7 @@ static void machine_initfn(Object *obj) container_get(obj, "/peripheral-anon"); ms->dump_guest_core = true; - ms->mem_merge = true; + ms->mem_merge = (QEMU_MADV_MERGEABLE != QEMU_MADV_INVALID); ms->enable_graphics = true; ms->kernel_cmdline = g_strdup(""); ms->ram_size = mc->default_ram_size; -- 2.45.1