Does virtualization count?

[Peter Robinson]

Hi Rich,

Yes, I think virtualisation would come in under fedora mini or at
least have a lot of over lap in making a small distro. There's
certainly a lot of cross over in various areas (and in server related
things in general)

> I'll just note these two partially related points:
>
> Debian can install and boot in 32 MB of RAM.  This is very useful for
> virtualization, since the number of virtual machines you can run is
> often a simple function:
>
>  total_VMs = total_RAM / RAM_required_by_each_VM
>
> The libguestfs appliance needs to boot up in 5 seconds, and consume
> the minimum amount of disk and memory possible.  (Currently it boots
> in 12 seconds, consumes 70 MB of disk, and up to 500 MB of RAM).

Very interesting stats.

Cheers,
Peter