On 6/27/23 05:00, Simon de Vlieger wrote: > On 6/27/23 10:40, Hans de Goede wrote: > > > Ok, so can you provide some instructions for how to make this work ? > I guess it would be something like add the cmdline option + then start > some systemd unit ? Can you please put some instructions for this in > the testing section of: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AnacondaWebUIforFedoraWorkstation > (with a note that this is currently not supported / recommended). > > > >> About the improvements on the Live ISO, that should be a question on > Fedora Workstation SIG. Anaconda team is not in charge of the > environment on the Live ISO. > > > > Well you are suggesting a change that is likely going to > significantly increase the amount of memory needed to do a livecd > workstation install and as mentioned above pushing the requirements > above 2G would basically block this change since 2G RAM is currently the > advertised minimum RAM requirement for Fedora workstation installs. > > > > So although I realize this is not entirely fair IMHO if you want to > push forward with this feature then you may also be on the hook to look > into reducing the memory footprint elsewhere so that the end result > still fits in 2G RAM. I have some experience with tweaking the livecd to > work with less RAM and I'm happy to share my experience in this, but I > do not have time to actually implement needed changes for this. > Hi Hans, > > it would indeed involve adding the `inst.webui` and `inst.webui.remote` > kernel command line options and a systemd unit to start the relevant > services (I *think* that'd only be `cockpit.service`).
Remote installation is not a solution to the memory bloat. It only pushes the problem to whatever machine the browser runs on, and it has significant and negative security implications. A solution here would be ensuring that the web UI uses no more RAM than the GTK UI that preceded it. -- Sincerely, Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
