Re: [Qemu-devel] ivshmem property size should be a size, not a string

[Markus Armbruster]

Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> writes:

> Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden> writes:
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>>> * shm appears to be the same as memdev, just less flexible.  Why does it
>>>   exist?
>>
>> It was there before.
>
> Not only is memdev more flexible, it also provides the clean split
> between frontend and backend we generally want.

In my tests, shm=foo can indeed be replaced by -object
memory-backend=file,mem-path=/dev/shm/foo.

However, /dev/shm is Linux-specific.  For portability, we might need a
memory-backend-shm.

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