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authorIgor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>2013-11-27 01:27:35 +0100
committerMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>2014-04-27 13:04:18 +0400
commit6e1d3c1c855818a6d1399698572afae0d11b872b (patch)
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downloadqemu-6e1d3c1c855818a6d1399698572afae0d11b872b.tar.gz
vl: convert -m to QemuOpts
Adds option to -m "size" - startup memory amount For compatibility with legacy CLI if suffix-less number is passed, it assumes amount in Mb. Otherwise user is free to use suffixed number using suffixes b,k/K,M,G Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 6457034b8c..926349b997 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -210,10 +210,13 @@ use is discouraged as it may be removed from future versions.
ETEXI
DEF("m", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_m,
- "-m megs set virtual RAM size to megs MB [default="
- stringify(DEFAULT_RAM_SIZE) "]\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
+ "-m [size=]megs\n"
+ " configure guest RAM\n"
+ " size: initial amount of guest memory (default: "
+ stringify(DEFAULT_RAM_SIZE) "MiB)\n",
+ QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
-@item -m @var{megs}
+@item -m [size=]@var{megs}
@findex -m
Set virtual RAM size to @var{megs} megabytes. Default is 128 MiB. Optionally,
a suffix of ``M'' or ``G'' can be used to signify a value in megabytes or