F21 Workstation Hardware Requirements

[Elad Alfassa]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 16:19:22 +0300,
>  Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> However, "hardware accelerated graphics" shouldn't be in the minimal -
>> people will still run Workstation on VM platforms where it's unavailable,
>> eg. KVM/spice, we don't want them to think it's impossible to run our own
>> OS on our own virtualization platform.
>> I think it would make more sense for "Hardware accelerated graphics" to be
>> in the recommended section.
>>
>
> If you are using software for graphics you need a powerful CPU to make the
> system usable. That is an odd combination on real hardware. So I think for
> a recommendation it makes sense to suggest hardware graphic acceleration
> for workstation. I think the running it as a VM on one's desktop is an
> outlier case.
>

Running in a VM on a desktop is actually a very important usecase. We're
targeting developers after all, developers might develop to our platform
and test in a vm when running our platform or when running another platform.

-- 
-Elad Alfassa.
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