[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1789751] Re: Using -overcommit flag leads to qemu crashing

[Thomas Huth]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released

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Title:
  Using -overcommit flag leads to qemu crashing

Status in QEMU:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Running the following leads to a qemu crash on startup:

  address@hidden:~/os$ qemu-system-i386 -overcommit cpu-pm=on
  qemu-system-i386: -overcommit cpu-pm=on: There is no option group 'overcommit'
  Segmentation fault (core dumped)
  address@hidden:~/os$ 

  
  This fixes the issue:

  --- ../tmp/qemu-3.0.0/vl.c    2018-08-14 12:10:35.000000000 -0700
  +++ vl.c      2018-08-29 14:59:30.151554120 -0700
  @@ -2987,6 +2987,7 @@
       qemu_add_opts(&qemu_object_opts);
       qemu_add_opts(&qemu_tpmdev_opts);
       qemu_add_opts(&qemu_realtime_opts);
  +    qemu_add_opts(&qemu_overcommit_opts);
       qemu_add_opts(&qemu_msg_opts);
       qemu_add_opts(&qemu_name_opts);
       qemu_add_opts(&qemu_numa_opts);

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