Axel Beckert writes ("Re: Bug#849867: xen-create-image: default config file
contains bad values"):
> Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> > This is no longer sufficient for current kernels in Stretch and
> > should be increased.
>
> WTF? I still have VMs (running Wheezy) which work with 48 MB of RAM. I
> also have hardware with just 80 MB of RAM which run slow but fine with
> Jessie. (But since Stretch won't
> support Pentium 1 anymore I need to look for another distro for that
> machine anyways.)-:
I looked at the the installation manual and it says 112Mb for the
installler. That's unchanged from jessie and probably hasn't been
updated for stretch. Thorsten, if that figure is wrong, you may want
to file a bug against the manual.
Also, I conjecture that Thorsten's initramfs's may be much larger than
Axel's.
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > I suggest we increase it to 512M.
>
> Sounds like far too much to me. I would have increased it to 256M.
I don't object to that lower value. There is certainly a strong
argument for being conservative at this stage of the Debian release.
> > Would you like me to do an NMU ?
>
> Not really, but if you want, I'll give you commit access upstream,
> i.e. at https://github.com/xen-tools/xen-tools -- just tell me your
> GitHub user name. (Actually, I'd appreciate any help with xen-tools'
> maintenance as I don't use it as often as in the past anymore due to a
> job change, and hence its importance for me is lower than it was in
> the past. :-/ )
I'm happy to help. My github username for work stuff is
`ijackson-citrix'.
I hope you have found my interventions in the outstanding bug reports
helpful.
> I'll try do an upload of what's in git plus your propositions below at
> least.
That would be great, thanks. (I haven't checked what's in git.)
For the avoidance of doubt, I understand that you intend to do the
upload and I shouldn't do anything. Of course your life may intervene
so you might not get round to it. When should I time out ? :-)
> And I should probably add the latest upcoming Ubuntu release name
> "zesty".
That would probably be appreciated.
Thanks for your attention.
Regards,
Ian.
