Karen Tung wrote:
> Glenn Lagasse wrote:
>> No.  The AI client (though I haven't found it yet) has I believe some
>> idea of what it requires in order to work in terms of client memory.
>> So, for installing the VM we'll set the memory to that required size.
>> After the VM is installed, we'll allow the user to set the memory size
>> of the VM to whatever value he wants to deploy the VM with.
>>
>> The disk size is a different problem.  If we were using something like
>> the liveCD that includes the image size we could use that, but we don't.
>> I know there's been discussion about getting IPS to deliver some sort of
>> interface for figuring out how big an installed set of packages is but I
>> don't think there's anything imminent there.  For now, the deployer will
>> need to have an idea of how much disk space he needs inside the VM in
>> order to set it.
>>   
> When we talk with the IPS group a couple of weeks ago, I believe
> they said that the functionality is already available in the API level,

Not yet.  But it should be delivered within the next month or two.

> and we just need to call those or something like that.  Since this same
> functionality is needed by the GUI and Text Installer as well, probably
> a program/function can be implemented and all the components that
> needed the info can use that.  Then, VMC can take the list of packages
> specified by the deployer for the VM image, and figure out the needed size
> for the disk.

See above.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

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