On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 06:47:37PM -0500, David Lehman wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 23:13 -0700, alan(a)clueserver.org wrote:
> > I have tried installing Fedora 16 alpha (i386 version) on VMWare
> player
> > and it dies starting up the installer.
> >
> > It also dies trying to install on my CTL 2GO pad. (Atom based tablet.)
>
> Same type of death as the vmware?
>
> >
> > Any ideas why?
>
> If you have less than 768M of memory you could have problems unpacking
> the initrd and/or starting the installer.
768 MB!!!
When I want to stuff as many VMs onto a virtual machine as possible,
RAM usage really matters. Particularly since RAM is currently cheap
up to about 8 GB but becomes much more expensive above that (ie. up to
about 6 VMs with all the overhead).
I can still run Debian VMs in 128 MB and do useful stuff with them
like light dynamic web serving.
In both cases I had 2 gigs of ram. Should not be a memory issue.