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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1707297] [NEW] qemu became more picky parsing -m o
From: |
Markus Armbruster |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1707297] [NEW] qemu became more picky parsing -m option |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:34:46 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (gnu/linux) |
John Florian <address@hidden> writes:
> Public bug reported:
>
> With qemu-kvm-2.9.0-3.fc26.x86_64 I am no longer to specify the memory
> size using something like "-m 1.00000GiB" but with qemu-
> kvm-2.7.1-7.fc25.x86_64 I could without any problem. I now get an error
> message like:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64: -m 1.00000GiB: Parameter 'size' expects a non-negative
> number below 2^64
> Optional suffix k, M, G, T, P or E means kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-, peta-
> and exabytes, respectively.
>
>
> Is this expected or a regression?
We recognize suffix "G". Before commit 75cdcd1 (v2.9.0), trailing
garbage after a recognized suffix was silently ignored. "1.0G",
"1.0GiB", "1.0Garbage-trucks-of-RAM" were all the same to QEMU. No
more.
All clear?