On 08/29/2010 02:16 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote: > I am eager to play with systemd, so I tried to install F14 Alpha x86_64 > on a QEMU virtual machine. The host is my Dell Latitude D620 running > F13 x86_64, fully updated with updates-testing enabled. I started the > VM with this command (f14.qcow2 is a blank 4GiB disk image created with > qemu-img): > > qemu-kvm -hda f14.qcow2 -cdrom Fedora-14-Alpha-x86_64-DVD.iso You may also want to consider using virt-install (command line) or virt-manager (gui) for creating new VMs, since those are also Fedora packages that attempt to make this easier. On 08/30/2010 09:35 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >>> This is unlikely to work. I suggest to append "-m 512" to the start-up >>> options in order to enable 512 MB of system memory. QEMU default value >>> is 128 MB of system memory. >> That was the problem. Thanks. >> > Hum if this is a case perhaps it's best to file a bug report and ask for > the default value to be increased to 512 MB I know that virt-manager has a 512MB default, but am not sure whether virt-install has the same default as qemu, or whether this warrants a bug report for both qemu and virt-install. -- Eric Blake eblake@xxxxxxxxxx +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
