Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> writes:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> Make -m syntactic sugar for a compound property "-machine
>> mem.{size,max-size,slots}". The new property does not have
>> the magic conversion to megabytes of unsuffixed arguments,
>> and also does not understand that "0" means the default size
>> (you have to leave it out to get the default). This means
>> that we need to convert the QemuOpts by hand to a QDict.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
>> Message-Id: <20220414165300.555321-4-pbonz...@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com>
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> This appears to change the meaning of
>
> [memory]
> size = "1024"
>
> in a -readconfig file from 1024MiB to 8KiB (1024 Bytes rounded up to
> 8KiB silently).
No reply so far.
If we can't fix this, we better mention it in the release notes.
Can we fix it?
> Aside: the failure mode is nasty: "KVM internal error. Suberror: 1".
> Known issue. Or rather known again issue (to me); I thought I had
> broken KVM somehow.
