Memory requirements

[Richard W.M. Jones]

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.

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