Fedora 18 Beta to slip by two weeks, Beta release date is now Nov 27

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 9 15:15:48 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:30:14AM -0500, David Cantrell wrote:
> > Wasn’t one of the advantages of VMs the fact that you can slice more 
> > small machines on one computer?
> Yes, that is an advantage, but that shouldn't be slicing up one computer in
> to multiple very underpowered smaller computers.

Why not? That's incredibly useful.

> Just to cite similar complaints I see from time to time...  It irritates me
> that people think it's a problem that in 2012 they can't install in a VM
> that is allocated with 256M of RAM.  Allocate a reasonable amount, start
> over.  Your host system for multiple VMs in 2012 should not have 1G of
> memory.

What about my host system for 500 VMs?

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Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>


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