F21 Workstation Hardware Requirements

[Elad Alfassa]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-09-02 at 13:34 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
>> The main extra requirement that you need to use Fedora Workstation in
>> a
>> VM is memory - trying to run Fedora Workstation in a VM with less than
>> 4GB on the host is futile; I've never seen that work.
>
> I can run Fedora in Boxes with a 3 GB host. I think it performs best
> with a 1.5 GB guest. It's a bit sluggish, but totally usable as long as
> the host isn't doing anything else. (Trying to run Boxes and a web
> browser in the host at the same time is a recipe for disaster.)
>
> I've noticed that Boxes recommends 1 GB as the right amount of memory
> for a Fedora guest. This seems too low.
>
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Boxes recommends 1GB only if it can't identify the OS iirc

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-Elad Alfassa.