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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-04-27 14:58:58 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2019-04-27 15:08:18 +0200
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doc: Suggest 1G of RAM for the VM image.
* doc/guix.texi (Running Guix in a VM): Suggest -m 1024.
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@@ -24675,7 +24675,8 @@ If your system has hardware virtualization extensions, enabling the
virtual machine support (KVM) of the Linux kernel will make things run
faster.
-@item -m 512
+@c To run Xfce + 'guix pull', we need at least 1G of RAM.
+@item -m 1024
RAM available to the guest OS, in mebibytes. Defaults to 128@tie{}MiB,
which may be insufficient for some operations.