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

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 March 2013 09:21, Rob Landley <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/06/2013 12:34:53 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 6 March 2013 11:59, Rob Landley <address@hidden> 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 :-)
>
>
> Who cares? I meant that I got 256 megs in an arm board, 256 megs in a mips
> board, 256 megs in a powerpc board, and 256 megs in a sparc board.
>
> KVM is welcome to change its defaults however it likes. This is the qemu
> list.

KVM the kernel component doesn't manage default RAM size -- QEMU
does. You would have the same problems running Windows 7 on a TCG
QEMU, because there's only one place we set the default RAM size
globally for all boards. This is purely a QEMU issue which we
should fix. There's no point increasing our single default RAM
size to 256 because that fixes nothing -- it is still too small
to be a useful default for many boards.

-- PMM