[RFC PATCH 0/2] Handle physical address bits

[Dario Faggioli]

On Wed, 2020-11-04 at 13:03 +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:55:30PM +0000, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > 
> > Using current QEMU's default of 40 may limit the amount of RAM the
> > guest
> > can see (which is the reason why, in our packages, we bump that to
> > 42; and
> > as far as I've understood from reading some old mailing list
> > threads on
> > the subject, other downstreams do something similar).
> 
> In RHEL we provide custom machine types which set host-phys-bits=on
> by
> default, which is why making it configurable in libvirt hasn't been a
> high priority previously.
> 
Yeah, and as I said, we bump that 40 to 42 in our QEMU package. I guess
this is why not many people have bumped into this on our side either.

Until now that I bumped into it... So, sad to admit, but apparently 42
was not the answer in this case. :-P

Thanks and Regards
-- 
Dario Faggioli, Ph.D
http://about.me/dario.faggioli
Virtualization Software Engineer
SUSE Labs, SUSE https://www.suse.com/
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