Ping! This didn't get into rc1. thanks -- PMM
On 20 August 2012 11:36, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > Now that we default to reserving nearly 4GB of RAM for the guest > address space when running a 32 bit linux-user guest on 64 bit > hosts, users are much more likely to run into it. Reword the > message to be more informative about what failed and provide > suggestions for how to fix things. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > --- > I've had several people run into this and have no idea what the > problem was (generally they were running with a ulimit -v setting), > so I think it is worth putting this into 1.2. > > linux-user/main.c | 5 ++++- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/linux-user/main.c b/linux-user/main.c > index 7dea084..d4dc015 100644 > --- a/linux-user/main.c > +++ b/linux-user/main.c > @@ -3519,7 +3519,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) > guest_base = init_guest_space(guest_base, reserved_va, 0, > have_guest_base); > if (guest_base == (unsigned long)-1) { > - fprintf(stderr, "Unable to reserve guest address space\n"); > + fprintf(stderr, "Unable to reserve 0x%lx bytes of virtual > address " > + "space for use as guest address space (check your > virtual " > + "memory ulimit setting or reserve less using -R > option)\n", > + reserved_va); > exit(1); > } > > -- > 1.7.9.5 >