On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [snip] > You're very wrong here. Memory is *the* key limiting resource for > VMs, particularly when people want to pack as many VMs into a system > as possible. If the minimum required for an OS goes from 256 -> 512MB, > then the number of VMs that can be run per host (more than) halves. > > Rich. It's worse than that - you generally only have *half* of your host's RAM to give to all the guests. Any more and all kinds of Heck breaks loose on a desktop. -- Twitter: http://twitter.com/znmeb; Computational Journalism Publishers Workbench: http://znmeb.github.com/Computational-Journalism-Publishers-Workbench/ How the Hell can the lion sleep with all those people singing "A weem oh way!" at the top of their lungs? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
