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authorStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2017-11-28 16:15:29 +0000
committerEduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>2018-01-19 11:18:51 -0200
commitcd19491ac19209d2554d593ea4f3bd9f6e3ed6b7 (patch)
treeb44e44a255633cca97334b9b96e940d119cc1d18
parentc7cddce1f7eb4b6d1ae979349f3dacb130a37814 (diff)
qemu-options: document memory-backend-ram
The documentation should mention -object memory-backend-ram. Suggested-by: Yumei Huang <yuhuang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20171128161529.3025-3-stefanha@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index fe8c04f644..5b0ee43b18 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -4025,6 +4025,13 @@ restrict memory allocation to the given host node list
interleave memory allocations across the given host node list
@end table
+@item -object memory-backend-ram,id=@var{id},merge=@var{on|off},dump=@var{on|off},prealloc=@var{on|off},size=@var{size},host-nodes=@var{host-nodes},policy=@var{default|preferred|bind|interleave}
+
+Creates a memory backend object, which can be used to back the guest RAM.
+Memory backend objects offer more control than the @option{-m} option that is
+traditionally used to define guest RAM. Please refer to
+@option{memory-backend-file} for a description of the options.
+
@item -object rng-random,id=@var{id},filename=@var{/dev/random}
Creates a random number generator backend which obtains entropy from