Re: KVM usability

Dustin Kirkland
2010-03-09T14:33:45Z

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On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 15:32 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/02/2010 04:36 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > If someone works up a patch and tests at least a couple types of
> > guests to confirm that they all install with that number, I'd be happy
> > to apply it (although we need some trickery to support older pc
> > versions).
>
> We should avoid changing defaults. I don't think in this case it
> matters, since everyone specifies -m anyway, but as a general rule
> changing defaults = breakage for the unwary. At least make the default
> part of the machine type to preserve compatibility.

In that case, Alex, where can I find your +384M patch, because I'd like
to carry the same one in Ubuntu...

Dustin

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