On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:47:37PM -0500, David Lehman wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:13 -0700, alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I have tried installing Fedora 16 alpha (i386 version) on VMWare player > > and it dies starting up the installer. > > > > It also dies trying to install on my CTL 2GO pad. (Atom based tablet.) > > Same type of death as the vmware? > > > > > Any ideas why? > > If you have less than 768M of memory you could have problems unpacking > the initrd and/or starting the installer. 768 MB!!! When I want to stuff as many VMs onto a virtual machine as possible, RAM usage really matters. Particularly since RAM is currently cheap up to about 8 GB but becomes much more expensive above that (ie. up to about 6 VMs with all the overhead). I can still run Debian VMs in 128 MB and do useful stuff with them like light dynamic web serving. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
