From 98a8b48a69b8208475c9a1e40d09517f8643b8cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ludovic=20Court=C3=A8s?= Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2022 14:45:45 +0200 Subject: doc: Suggest more RAM for "Running Guix in a VM". Fixes . Reported by Michael F. Lamb . 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". --- doc/guix.texi | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') 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. -- cgit v1.2.3