[Spice-devel] QXL and /GB switch

[David Martin]

----- "Izik Eidus" <ieidus at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:48:37 -0500 (CDT)
> David Martin <david at lsbase.com> wrote:
> 
> > ----- "Izik Eidus" <ieidus at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:43:40 -0600 (CST)
> > > David Martin <david at lsbase.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Any reason why booting XP with the /3GB switch would break the
> QXL
> > > driver with the following status "This device cannot start. (Code
> > > 10)"?
> > > 
> > > Hi, I just tried to repredouce it on the master repo
> > > both with -m 3G and something like -m 3010
> > > 
> > > and it doesn`t happen to me... how you run it exactly?
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > David Martin
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> > 
> > I am referring to the option in the XP boot.ini that allows user
> space processes to address more than 2GB of RAM (By appending /3GB to
> the OS boot line).  That was with the old driver from October, I'll
> try with the one you posted yesterday.
> 
> 
> Oh, ok that expline why it didnt happen to me.
> 
> That probably won`t help you, it didn`t change the mappings handling.
It didn't.
> 
> I will digg into this after i finish some stuff.
> But just interesting if you tell it to be 2800 it will work?
I guess I'm not sure what you mean?

A little googling shows quite a few problems with video drivers and the /3GB switch.  It's really not a big deal I just needed it to test an app we are running that has been plagued with OOM errors.  Turned out to be a limit in the .NET framework.