On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Axel Beckert wrote:
Also, I conjecture that Thorsten's initramfs's may be much larger than
Axel's.
Ah, including initramfs. Ok, with the generic (and not hw-specific)
initramfs, 128 MB might indeed be too little.
I created an image with just the default parameters and wanted to start
it. This resulted in the reboot-loop. I am sure one can save some bytes
here and there, but there should be at least a warning if a given set of
parameters might led to trouble.
I'm actually still undecided. Bascially so far I kept it at the
smallest sane-ish memory size, but your comment made me think if that
scheme should be changed in general. I still have the feeling that
half a gig or RAM is quite a lot for a small, but otherwise normal and
not deliberately minimal VM, but 256 MB is indeed rather small
nowadays. So e.g. 384 MB is also a value I currently think about.
Most of my VMs that also do some real stuff have about 512Mb or even 1Gb.
If everything is up and running one can simply change the value, so 384Mb
sounds reasonable.
Thorsten
