[ovirt-users] Change default "Physical Memory Guaranteed" value

Karli Sjöberg karli.sjoberg at slu.se
Thu Apr 27 09:16:38 UTC 2017


On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 12:02 +0300, Barak Korren wrote:
> On 27 April 2017 at 10:58, Karli Sjöberg <karli.sjoberg at slu.se>
> wrote:
> > 
> > PS. CentOS 7 won´t even pxe-boot with any less than 1536 MB any way
> > :(
> 
> You can consider using the CentOS cloud image. It is available from
> the oVirt image repository and AFAIR can boot in VMs with as little
> as
> 500MB of RAM.

Of course, once the VM is installed, I can go in and change the RAM to
512 MB and it´ll boot just fine. It´s as you say that it´s just the
installer that absolutely needs it.

> 
> I think its just the installer that needs that much RAM, if you boot
> from pre-installed images you can do with much less (And you can also
> save on disk space and I/O by using thin clones).
> 

That is also an option but I just don´t want to have a dozen images to
update and maintain, I´m lazy:)

/K


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