Re: [Qemu-discuss] Starting QEMU with RAM from shm file

[Miltos Hatzimihail]

To answer my own question, I needed to do this:

-m 4G -object 
memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=4G,mem-path=/dev/shm/sysmem,share=on -numa 
node,memdev=mem

and it works like a charm

Milton

> On 26 May 2017, at 16:53, Miltiadis Hatzimihail <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> I am trying to start Guest OS with QEMU and map its RAM from a file in the 
> /dev/shm from the host. 
> 
> Is this possible? I tried the -mem-path and -mem-prealloc options but I can't 
> see anything on the host when I do a hex dump on the file.
> 
> Regards
> Milton
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> 
> Miltiadis Hatzimihail
>