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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-04-09 13:47:57 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2014-04-09 14:01:31 +0200
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vm: Add #:memory-size parameter for 'expression->derivation-in-linux-vm'.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (expression->derivation-in-linux-vm): Add #:memory-size parameter, defaulting to 256 (QEMU defaults to 128.)
Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/system')
-rw-r--r--gnu/system/vm.scm5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/system/vm.scm b/gnu/system/vm.scm
index 6ed183634f..ba4c7607c9 100644
--- a/gnu/system/vm.scm
+++ b/gnu/system/vm.scm
@@ -78,12 +78,14 @@
(make-disk-image? #f)
(references-graphs #f)
+ (memory-size 256)
(disk-image-size
(* 100 (expt 2 20))))
"Evaluate EXP in a QEMU virtual machine running LINUX with INITRD (a
derivation). In the virtual machine, EXP has access to all of INPUTS from the
store; it should put its output files in the `/xchg' directory, which is
-copied to the derivation's output when the VM terminates.
+copied to the derivation's output when the VM terminates. The virtual machine
+runs with MEMORY-SIZE MiB of memory.
When MAKE-DISK-IMAGE? is true, then create a QEMU disk image of
DISK-IMAGE-SIZE bytes and return it.
@@ -157,6 +159,7 @@ made available under the /xchg CIFS share."
(and (zero?
(system* qemu "-enable-kvm" "-nographic" "-no-reboot"
+ "-m" ,(number->string memory-size)
"-net" "nic,model=virtio"
"-virtfs"
,(string-append "local,id=store_dev,path=" (%store-prefix)