F15 on KVM/libvirt

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 20:36 +0300, Pekka Pietikainen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 11:18:20AM -0600, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> > 
> > Has anybody tested F15 on QEMU/KVM?
> > 
> > I'm trying to install from the F15 alpha DVD on KVM virtual machine I manage 
> > through libvirt. I can boot and install F14 on this exact VM, but with F15 I 
> > get the initial menu, and when I hit enter, it stops with the following 
> > messages. I tried the usual "noacpi noapic", but get the same result.
> Ha.
> 
> I bet you didn't adjust the amount of memory you're giving the VM from the
> default :P As I just noticed, with 512MB it quickly dies from running out of
> memory while decompressing the initramfs.  Apparently it's a known issue.

Ah, of course, good catch: that makes it more or less
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=682555 , which is kind of
about asking for this to fail more 'nicely' and also be better
documented.
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