Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:49:09 -0700 From: Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com> To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bhyve: simplify memory assignment to VMs Message-ID: <CAFgRE9Ex2s7w-FgmK1QJ424zX-GS2PEcQvkapVxCn=n5C=e6bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFgRE9HeuuRZkdQXjN14Qs4Ema-t=Y1EbvEiOoj9Wq7sG=TOew@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFgRE9HeuuRZkdQXjN14Qs4Ema-t=Y1EbvEiOoj9Wq7sG=TOew@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Neel Natu <neelnatu@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am going to commit a change soon that simplifies how memory is > assigned to a VM from a command line perspective. > > At the moment if you want to create a VM with say 8GB of memory you > need to express this as "-m 2048 -M 6144" or "-m 1024 -M 7168" or some > split that adds up to 8192MB. This is very flexible but is also very > confusing to most users who don't know or care about the location of > the PCI hole. > > I am going to change this so that the memory size is specified > entirely with the "-m <memsize>" option and the "-M" option will > disappear altogether. > > Of course, this means that scripts using "-M" will break and hence > this heads up. > > I did consider making this a backward compatible change but given the > stage of development of bhyve it seemed early to start accumulating > compatibility crud. > Committed as r248477: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=248477 Please update your vmrun.sh scripts from /usr/share/examples/bhyve/vmrun.sh best Neel > best > Neel
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