Re: Does reboot clear RAM?

[Joachim Durchholz]

Do physical machines wipe memory?
They don't on shutdown, and memory tends to retain bits for a while 
(seconds to hours, depending on temperature and RAM technology).
I don't know what RAM chips do if they are reset. Do they even have a 
reset line nowadays?

Am 09.11.19 um 10:56 schrieb Narcis Garcia via:
> In my humble opinion, Qemu should wipe any released RAM area because of
> guest shutdown or reboot, same as a physical machine, to guest finds
> it's booting in same conditions.
>
>
> El 8/11/19 a les 23:55, Nachammai Karuppiah ha escrit:
> > Does qemu clear the physical address on guest reboot?
> > Qemu is started with kernel parameters, ramoops.mem_address=0x7f00000
> > ramoops.mem_size=0x100000 but I do see that the memory even outside
> > this region is not wiped away and is retained after rebooting the
> > guest