[Users] oVirt host requirement

Andrew Cathrow acathrow at redhat.com
Wed Mar 21 11:52:48 UTC 2012


The recommendation is wrong, (and in the downstream docs) realistically it should be 2GB minimum.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Laszlo Hornyak" <lhornyak at redhat.com>
> To: "Andre Kostur" <akostur at incognito.com>
> Cc: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 3:32:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Users] oVirt host requirement
> 
> 
> "Virtualization hosts must have at least 10 GB of RAM. A minimum of
> an additional 1 GB for each
> virtual machine is also recommended."
> 
> Not the first complaint, maybe we should update those numbers.  E.g.
> I 'only' have 8 GB of RAM in my hosts and works perfectly, I even
> run other jobs on my hosts.
> You need some hundred megabyte for the host OS plus the ram for your
> VMs.
> 
> Laszlo
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Andre Kostur" <akostur at incognito.com>
> > To: users at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:59:26 AM
> > Subject: [Users] oVirt host requirement
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Just checking to be sure that the Installation Guide doesn't have a
> > typo, but do virtualization hosts really require 10 (ten) GB of RAM
> > minimum, before even placing a VM onto it? (Page 8, Section
> > 2.1.2.2)
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > Andre Kostur
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