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

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

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> You're very wrong here.  Memory is *the* key limiting resource for
> VMs, particularly when people want to pack as many VMs into a system
> as possible.  If the minimum required for an OS goes from 256 -> 512MB,
> then the number of VMs that can be run per host (more than) halves.
>
> Rich.

It's worse than that - you generally only have *half* of your host's
RAM to give to all the guests. Any more and all kinds of Heck breaks
loose on a desktop.


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