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authorPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>2012-08-20 11:36:32 +0100
committerRiku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>2012-08-27 10:18:01 +0300
commit097b8cb840a31ec526cc58778bd8cbab0d2beaaa (patch)
treea3990eb3329186df972e7ca3a398ddb6700a6d38
parent333858b77c2b4f7636257808a77822c58bdd80fe (diff)
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>
-rw-r--r--linux-user/main.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/linux-user/main.c b/linux-user/main.c
index b1c228a24..1a1c661ee 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);
}