Re: [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 1/2] machine: add default_ram_size to machine class

[Nikunj A Dadhania]

Hi Paolo,

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> 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