Re: KVM usability

Anthony Liguori
2010-03-09T15:05:36Z

On 03/09/2010 08:52 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/09/2010 04:50 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> It's all in the openSUSE build service. The direct access URL (login
>>> required FWIW) is here:
>>>
>>> https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=kvm-qemu-default-memsize.patch&package=kvm&project=Virtualization
>>>
>>>
>>> It merely changes DEFAULT_RAM_SIZE in vl.c from 128 to 384 for the
>>> "kvm" package.
>>
>> We should attempt to do three things with default ram size:
>>
>> 1) bump it up to a more reasonable number
>> 2) make it specified in the global default config
>> 3) make sure we can provide compatibility support for older machine
>> types
>
> It's really sad, the amount of code needed to change a number.

We don't do enough via a config. If we did, we could just have a 0.12
config version that got frozen over time.

So really, if we can make the mem readable by global config, and we can
have machine specific configs, it would simplify the problem in the
future so that we just had to bump a number.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori