On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:08:20AM +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones <rjones <at> redhat.com> writes: > > > 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). > > You can install a virtual guest using extra RAM (assuming your host has it) and > then reduce it afterwards. AFAIK, the amount needed to run an already installed > system is no greater than before. Why does it need so much to start with? It's just a graphical program that asks a few questions and then installs a few packages. Can't see why it would need such huge amounts of RAM. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
