From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
agraf@suse.de
Cc: thuth@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
armbru@redhat.com, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com, imammedo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 1/2] machine: add default_ram_size to machine class
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:11:46 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twvy5it1.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5540A00D.4080500@redhat.com>
Hi Paolo,
Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> On 29/04/2015 11:06, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> > so David can push both patches.
>> >
>> > But isn't 1G a bit too much? At least on x86 you can easily boot with 512M.
>>
>> I understood this number as not the _minimum memory_ to boot the
>> VM. And this will only come in picture when the user has not specified
>> any memory.
>
> This in turn will basically only happen for QEMU developers. So keeping
> the default on the low side would make sense.
>
> On my (4G memory) laptop I might not even be able to boot a PPC64 VM
> with 1G and TCG, but I can do that nicely with 256M.
That will be fine with me as well, i.e. 256M
David/Alex, Do you have comments on this before we change it?
Regards
Nikunj
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-30 4:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-28 6:53 [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 0/2] Introduce default ram size in MachineClass Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-28 6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 1/2] machine: add default_ram_size to machine class Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-28 11:30 ` Thomas Huth
2015-04-29 1:56 ` David Gibson
2015-04-29 8:14 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-29 8:33 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-29 9:06 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-29 9:10 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-30 4:41 ` Nikunj A Dadhania [this message]
2015-04-30 9:18 ` Alexander Graf
2015-04-30 9:40 ` Thomas Huth
2015-04-30 9:43 ` Alexander Graf
2015-04-30 16:58 ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-30 13:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-28 6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 2/2] spapr: override default ram size to 1GB Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-28 11:32 ` Thomas Huth
2015-04-29 1:57 ` David Gibson
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