Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-14 Thread Stuart Winter
> AIUI, the RAM limit in qemu is platform dependant. The versatilepb > platform is limited to 256MB, but according to the following > page, the vexpress-a9 platform supports up to 1GB RAM: > > https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuVersatileExpress > > Although it will probably will take a bit mo

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread Greg Lim
On Dec 13, 2011, at 3:14 AM, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 12/12/2011 07:11 PM, Ottavio wrote: >> On 11 December 2011 09:30, John O'Donnell wrote: >>> If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk >>> and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual mach

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread Stuart Winter
> AIUI, the RAM limit in qemu is platform dependant. The versatilepb > platform is limited to 256MB, but according to the following > page, the vexpress-a9 platform supports up to 1GB RAM: > > https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuVersatileExpress > > Although it will probably will take a bit

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread Jim Hawkins
On Tue, 13 Dec 2011, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 12/13/2011 04:56 AM, Ottavio wrote: > > I see these two options in the qemu manual: > > > > -mem-path path > > Allocate guest RAM from a temporarily created file in path. > > -mem-prealloc > > Preallocate memory when using -mem-path. > >

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread John O'Donnell
On 12/13/2011 04:56 AM, Ottavio wrote: If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... Is there any real life ARM device that supports 8G RAM? I dont know. All I know is I need more than 512

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread Ottavio
On 13 December 2011 08:14, John O'Donnell wrote: > On 12/12/2011 07:11 PM, Ottavio wrote: >> >> On 11 December 2011 09:30, John O'Donnell  wrote: >>> >>>  If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram >>> disk >>> and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtua

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread John O'Donnell
On 12/12/2011 07:11 PM, Ottavio wrote: On 11 December 2011 09:30, John O'Donnell wrote: If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... Is there any real life ARM device that supports 8G RAM?

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-13 Thread Davide
ARMv8 is supposed to support 64 bit addressing otherwise as far as I know all current ARM devices have sub 32 bit address space. Ciao for now David Da: Ottavio A: Slackware ARM port Inviato: Martedì 13 Dicembre 2011 1:11 Oggetto: Re: [ARMedslack] qemu

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-12 Thread Ottavio
On 11 December 2011 09:30, John O'Donnell wrote: >  If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk > and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... Is there any real life ARM device that supports 8G RAM? -- Ottavio qemu-users: http://grou

Re: [ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-12 Thread Stuart Winter
> I notice that the 256M memory limitation still exists in the qemu 1.0 latest > release yet google's android qemu variant can go well above. If I have 8gigs > of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk and make that swap > space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... Wou

[ARMedslack] qemu memory limitation

2011-12-11 Thread John O'Donnell
Stuart, I notice that the 256M memory limitation still exists in the qemu 1.0 latest release yet google's android qemu variant can go well above. If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine...