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From: Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
	agraf@suse.de
Cc: thuth@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
	armbru@redhat.com, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org,
	marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com, imammedo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 1/2] machine: add default_ram_size to machine class
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 10:11:46 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87twvy5it1.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5540A00D.4080500@redhat.com>


Hi Paolo,

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
> On 29/04/2015 11:06, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
>> > so David can push both patches.
>> >
>> > But isn't 1G a bit too much?  At least on x86 you can easily boot with 512M.
>> 
>> I understood this number as not the _minimum memory_ to boot the
>> VM. And this will only come in picture when the user has not specified
>> any memory.
>
> This in turn will basically only happen for QEMU developers.  So keeping
> the default on the low side would make sense.
>
> On my (4G memory) laptop I might not even be able to boot a PPC64 VM
> with 1G and TCG, but I can do that nicely with 256M.

That will be fine with me as well, i.e. 256M

David/Alex, Do you have comments on this before we change it?

Regards
Nikunj

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-30  4:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-28  6:53 [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 0/2] Introduce default ram size in MachineClass Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-28  6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 1/2] machine: add default_ram_size to machine class Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-28 11:30   ` Thomas Huth
2015-04-29  1:56     ` David Gibson
2015-04-29  8:14       ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-29  8:33         ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-29  9:06           ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-29  9:10             ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-30  4:41               ` Nikunj A Dadhania [this message]
2015-04-30  9:18                 ` Alexander Graf
2015-04-30  9:40                   ` Thomas Huth
2015-04-30  9:43                     ` Alexander Graf
2015-04-30 16:58                       ` Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-30 13:05                     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-04-28  6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 2/2] spapr: override default ram size to 1GB Nikunj A Dadhania
2015-04-28 11:32   ` Thomas Huth
2015-04-29  1:57     ` David Gibson

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