F21 Workstation Hardware Requirements

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:14 AM, 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.

I disagree.  Testing Workstation in a VM before installing it is
something we should very much care about.  There are also cases where
people want to use a VM for developing some new part of the stack and
running Workstation as a VM to test that out is also very viable.

josh