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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2012-08-20 11:36:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org> | 2012-08-27 10:18:01 +0300 |
| commit | 097b8cb840a31ec526cc58778bd8cbab0d2beaaa (patch) | |
| tree | a3990eb3329186df972e7ca3a398ddb6700a6d38 /linux-user/main.c | |
| parent | 333858b77c2b4f7636257808a77822c58bdd80fe (diff) | |
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linux-user: Clarify "Unable to reserve guest address space" error
Now that we default to reserving nearly 4GB of RAM for the guest address space when running a 32 bit linux-user guest on 64 bit hosts, users are much more likely to run into it. Reword the message to be more informative about what failed and provide suggestions for how to fix things. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux-user/main.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | linux-user/main.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/main.c b/linux-user/main.c index b1c228a249..1a1c661ee4 100644 --- a/linux-user/main.c +++ b/linux-user/main.c @@ -3519,7 +3519,10 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) guest_base = init_guest_space(guest_base, reserved_va, 0, have_guest_base); if (guest_base == (unsigned long)-1) { - fprintf(stderr, "Unable to reserve guest address space\n"); + fprintf(stderr, "Unable to reserve 0x%lx bytes of virtual address " + "space for use as guest address space (check your virtual " + "memory ulimit setting or reserve less using -R option)\n", + reserved_va); exit(1); } |