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authorMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2010-03-01 20:25:08 -0300
committerMarcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>2010-03-04 00:28:47 -0300
commitc902760fb25f9c490af01e8f6bccaa8dd71cc224 (patch)
treeebf40c2fba4b138eee6721d011f9f82040a6e565 /qemu-options.hx
parent60e4c6317b8773d987729401aeca9d8c6b61b05f (diff)
Add option to use file backed guest memory
Port qemu-kvm's -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options. These are useful for backing guest memory with huge pages via hugetlbfs. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> CC: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index 7daa246c1f..fd50addb65 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -314,6 +314,22 @@ a suffix of ``M'' or ``G'' can be used to signify a value in megabytes or
gigabytes respectively.
ETEXI
+DEF("mem-path", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_mempath,
+ "-mem-path FILE provide backing storage for guest RAM\n")
+STEXI
+@item -mem-path @var{path}
+Allocate guest RAM from a temporarily created file in @var{path}.
+ETEXI
+
+#ifdef MAP_POPULATE
+DEF("mem-prealloc", 0, QEMU_OPTION_mem_prealloc,
+ "-mem-prealloc preallocate guest memory (use with -mem-path)\n")
+STEXI
+@item -mem-prealloc
+Preallocate memory when using -mem-path.
+ETEXI
+#endif
+
DEF("k", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_k,
"-k language use keyboard layout (for example 'fr' for French)\n")
STEXI