On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 13:30 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
With F32 and previous versions I've been able to install
Workstation and other spins in a QEMU VM
with about 1200MB~1248MB of memory. With F33 the install process crashes during the
"installing software"
phase.
Is this expected?
FWIW, the "Everything-netinst" install of a KDE system did install just fine
with 1248MB assigned.
Currently using...
Fedora-Everything-netinst-x86_64-33-20200824.n.0.iso
Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-33-20200824.n.0.iso
Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-33-20200824.n.0.iso
So the 'official' doc on this, AFAIK, is
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora/rawhide/release-notes/welcome...
which still cites 1GB as the minimum for "the default installation"
(which is of course a fairly vague term).
We don't really do any checking/validation of low memory configs,
though, so when this changes we don't necessarily notice. openQA
install tests use 2GB RAM, so we would notice if things stopped working
with 2GB, but we don't test below that.
Running Workstation with less than 2GB is really not gonna give you a
great experience, though. If anything, I'd actually think we should
update the docs to specify 2GB minimum for GNOME and KDE.
Bottom line it's entirely possible this changed, but I don't think we'd
treat it as a significant issue because I suspect we wouldn't really
want to stand behind the experience of running Workstation or KDE in
less than 2GB of RAM anyway.
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