Re: KVM usability

Alexander Graf
2010-03-02T02:34:59Z

On 01.03.2010, at 22:59, Anthony Liguori wrote:

> On 03/01/2010 03:12 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
>> kvm -m 512 -cdrom
>> /home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/iso/lucid-desktop-amd64.iso -drive
>> file=/home/kirkland/.cache/testdrive/img/testdrive-disk-0086OD.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on
>> -usb -usbdevice tablet -net nic,model=virtio -net user -soundhw es1370
>>
>> Among these:
>> * 512MB is a nice step up from the 128MB by default (this one scales
>> based on your hosts memory)
>>
>
> I'm not opposed to bumping from 128M to something else. I'd like to see some indication though other than "seems reasonable" as to what the value should be. For instance, if a Fedora 12 install doesn't work without 256M, that's a solid argument to bump the allocation. Short term, I'd like to see this globally configurable.

I keep a patch in the SUSE version for quite some time now that bumps the default to 384 for qemu-kvm. That was the first "round" number where an openSUSE installation worked.

Alex