Memory requirements (was: Re: Fedora 16 Alpha i386 does not install in VMWare)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:47:37PM -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:13 -0700, alan at clueserver.org wrote:
> > I have tried installing Fedora 16 alpha (i386 version) on VMWare player
> > and it dies starting up the installer.
> > 
> > It also dies trying to install on my CTL 2GO pad. (Atom based tablet.)
> 
> Same type of death as the vmware?
> 
> > 
> > Any ideas why?
> 
> If you have less than 768M of memory you could have problems unpacking
> the initrd and/or starting the installer.

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).

I can still run Debian VMs in 128 MB and do useful stuff with them
like light dynamic web serving.

Rich.

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