informative message about low memory on /dev/shm

git-svn-id: svn://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/qemu/trunk@1388 c046a42c-6fe2-441c-8c8c-71466251a162

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/osdep.c b/osdep.c
index eef1ecbecb..f2a69d9a71 100644
--- a/osdep.c
+++ b/osdep.c
@@ -323,6 +323,7 @@ void qemu_vfree(void *ptr)
 
 #elif defined(USE_KQEMU)
 
+#include <sys/vfs.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
 
@@ -333,11 +334,37 @@ void *qemu_vmalloc(size_t size)
     const char *tmpdir;
     char phys_ram_file[1024];
     void *ptr;
+    struct statfs stfs;
 
     if (phys_ram_fd < 0) {
         tmpdir = getenv("QEMU_TMPDIR");
         if (!tmpdir)
             tmpdir = "/dev/shm";
+        if (statfs(tmpdir, &stfs) == 0) {
+            int64_t free_space;
+            int ram_mb;
+
+            extern int ram_size;
+            free_space = (int64_t)stfs.f_bavail * stfs.f_bsize;
+            if ((ram_size + 8192 * 1024) >= free_space) {
+                ram_mb = (ram_size / (1024 * 1024));
+                fprintf(stderr, 
+                        "You do not have enough space in '%s' for the %d MB of QEMU virtual RAM.\n",
+                        tmpdir, ram_mb);
+                if (strcmp(tmpdir, "/dev/shm") == 0) {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "To have more space available provided you have enough RAM and swap, do as root:\n"
+                            "umount /dev/shm\n"
+                            "mount -t tmpfs -o size=%dm none /dev/shm\n",
+                            ram_mb + 16);
+                } else {
+                    fprintf(stderr, 
+                            "Use the '-m' option of QEMU to diminish the amount of virtual RAM or use the\n"
+                            "QEMU_TMPDIR environment variable to set another directory where the QEMU\n"
+                            "temporary RAM file will be opened.\n");
+                }
+                exit(1);
+            }
+        }
         snprintf(phys_ram_file, sizeof(phys_ram_file), "%s/qemuXXXXXX", 
                  tmpdir);
         if (mkstemp(phys_ram_file) < 0) {