Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Sanity check host processor physical address width

2015-07-09 Thread Bandan Das
Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com writes: ... First, see my comments on the KVM patch. Second, ram_size is not the right thing to compare. What should be checked is whether the highest guest-physical address that maps to RAM can be represented in the address width of the host processor (and

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Sanity check host processor physical address width

2015-07-09 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:02:38 +0200 Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/09/15 00:42, Bandan Das wrote: If a Linux guest is assigned more memory than is supported by the host processor, the guest is unable to boot. That is expected, however, there's no message indicating the user

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Sanity check host processor physical address width

2015-07-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 07/09/15 11:27, Igor Mammedov wrote: On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 09:02:38 +0200 Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com wrote: On 07/09/15 00:42, Bandan Das wrote: If a Linux guest is assigned more memory than is supported by the host processor, the guest is unable to boot. That is expected, however,

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Sanity check host processor physical address width

2015-07-09 Thread Igor Mammedov
On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:42:01 -0400 Bandan Das b...@redhat.com wrote: If a Linux guest is assigned more memory than is supported by the host processor, the guest is unable to boot. That is expected, however, there's no message indicating the user what went wrong. This change prints a message

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Sanity check host processor physical address width

2015-07-09 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 07/09/15 21:11, Bandan Das wrote: Laszlo Ersek ler...@redhat.com writes: ... First, see my comments on the KVM patch. Second, ram_size is not the right thing to compare. What should be checked is whether the highest guest-physical address that maps to RAM can be represented in the

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] target-i386: Sanity check host processor physical address width

2015-07-09 Thread Bandan Das
Igor Mammedov imamm...@redhat.com writes: On Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:42:01 -0400 Bandan Das b...@redhat.com wrote: If a Linux guest is assigned more memory than is supported by the host processor, the guest is unable to boot. That is expected, however, there's no message indicating the user