Tried to install F14 Alpha in QEMU on F13; hang during boot

[Karel Volný]

On Monday 30 of August 2010 17:35:24 Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
>   On 08/30/2010 03:38 PM, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 17:20 +0200, Christoph Frieben wrote:
> >> 2010/8/29 Matt McCutchen wrote:
> >>> Memory: 68088k/131060k available
> >> 
> >> This is unlikely to work. I suggest to append "-m 512" to
> >> the start-up options in order to enable 512 MB of system
> >> memory. QEMU default value is 128 MB of system memory.
> > 
> > That was the problem.  Thanks.
> 
> Hum if this is a case perhaps it's best to file a bug report
> and ask for the default value to be increased to 512 MB

not sure if it is a good idea - if you forget to specify the 
amount, the case of virtual machine not running due to not enough 
memory seems to me a bit better than the case of your physical 
hardware thrashing and OOM killer firing processes just because 
QEMU ate the last free bits ...

once upon a time, a bugreport (RFE) existed for the installer to 
show a big fat warning about not enough memory, which would lead 
the user to check the virtual machine settings in this case ... 
wonder where it disappeared, can't find it right now :-(

K.

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