On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 03:33, Dennis <den...@satanclaus.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've been looking at the qemu source code but couldn't find anything >> that would suit my needs. >> Basically I'm looking for a way to use a file on disk as physical >> memory inside Qemu. > > Once when I did code adventure in Qemu, I conclude Qemu create > temporary file (possibly using mktemp()) and mmap it, thus creating > "illusion" file as RAM for guest. > > So, I think it's already done. It's just not configurable through > command parameter
Use -mem-path /path/to/directory. It's used for hugetlbfs support on Linux but it should work on a normal filesystem too. Stefan
