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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2022-09-01 14:45:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2022-09-01 18:31:26 +0200 |
| commit | 98a8b48a69b8208475c9a1e40d09517f8643b8cb (patch) | |
| tree | 96233db78a257fb26e28cb96b659b2bed459f858 /doc | |
| parent | fe149b01d0b65f421602f8bc794a926434f5d9a9 (diff) | |
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doc: Suggest more RAM for "Running Guix in a VM".
Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57474>.
Reported by Michael F. Lamb <mike@orbital.rodeo>.
Running 'guix pull' to target current revisions would lead to memory
exhaustion. Bumping the memory size works around that.
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Change "-m 1024" to "-m 2048".
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 2473170b6b..246403bcba 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -38494,7 +38494,7 @@ image -t qcow2} on x86_64 hardware: @example $ qemu-system-x86_64 \ -nic user,model=virtio-net-pci \ - -enable-kvm -m 1024 \ + -enable-kvm -m 2048 \ -device virtio-blk,drive=myhd \ -drive if=none,file=/tmp/qemu-image,id=myhd @end example @@ -38521,7 +38521,7 @@ virtual machine support (KVM) of the Linux kernel will make things run faster. @c To run Xfce + 'guix pull', we need at least 1G of RAM. -@item -m 1024 +@item -m 2048 RAM available to the guest OS, in mebibytes. Defaults to 128@tie{}MiB, which may be insufficient for some operations. |