Re: [Qemu-devel] default guest RAM size?

[Wei-Ren Chen]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 01:40:38PM +0800, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 5 March 2013 13:26, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
> > For many years, qemu defaults to 128Mb of guest RAM size.
> > Today, this is just too small, and many OSes fails to boot
> > with this size, more, they fail to produce any reasonable
> > messages either (eg, windows7 just crashes at startup).
> 
> If you make the default bigger then some boards will crash
> or behave weirdly because they try to map more RAM in than
> will fit into the space for RAM in their address maps.

  So, 128Mb is still a good default? I am just wondering if those
boards with little memory still are major user of QEMU? :)

Regards,
chenwj

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