On 5 March 2013 14:07, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) <che...@iis.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: >> > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. >> > Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot >> > with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable >> > messages either (eg, windows7 just crashes at startup). >> >> If you make the default bigger then some boards will crash >> or behave weirdly because they try to map more RAM in than >> will fit into the space for RAM in their address maps. > > So, 128Mb is still a good default? I am just wondering if those > boards with little memory still are major user of QEMU? :)
They may not be major but they're still in the codebase. You can't just arbitrarily break them -- you need to propose a path forward that doesn't do that. -- PMM
