Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Peter Maydell writes: > On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. >> Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot >> with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable >> messages either (eg, windows7 just cras

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Peter Maydell
On 7 March 2013 09:21, Rob Landley wrote: > On 03/06/2013 12:34:53 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 6 March 2013 11:59, Rob Landley wrote: >> > 256 can be handled by most things. >> >> I'm going to take a wild guess that Windows 7 doesn't do any >> better in 256MB than it does with 128 :-) > > > Wh

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 03/06/2013 12:34:53 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: On 6 March 2013 11:59, Rob Landley wrote: > On 03/05/2013 12:09:27 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 5 March 2013 14:07, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >> On 5 March 2013 13:26,

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Michael Tokarev
06.03.2013 22:47, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:34:53AM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I'm going to take a wild guess that Windows 7 doesn't do any >> better in 256MB than it does with 128 :-) Actually it does. With 128Mb it crashes. With 256Mb it says it wants more memo

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Peter Maydell
On 6 March 2013 11:59, Rob Landley wrote: > On 03/05/2013 12:09:27 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 5 March 2013 14:07, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) >> wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: >> >> On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> >> > For many years, qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 03/05/2013 12:09:27 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: On 5 March 2013 14:07, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. >> > Today, this is

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 02:34:53AM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 6 March 2013 11:59, Rob Landley wrote: > > On 03/05/2013 12:09:27 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 5 March 2013 14:07, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) > >> wrote: > >> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> >> O

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-06 Thread Markus Armbruster
Peter Maydell writes: > On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. >> Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot >> with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable >> messages either (eg, windows7 just cras

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-05 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:26:32AM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. > Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot > with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable > messages either (eg, windows7 just crashes at start

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-04 Thread Peter Maydell
On 5 March 2013 14:07, 陳韋任 (Wei-Ren Chen) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. >> > Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot >> > wi

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-04 Thread Wei-Ren Chen
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. > > Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot > > with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable

Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-04 Thread Peter Maydell
On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev wrote: > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. > Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot > with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable > messages either (eg, windows7 just crashes at startup). If you make

[Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Tokarev
For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size. Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable messages either (eg, windows7 just crashes at startup). Some distributions (eg ubuntu) had a local patch to increase this v