Re: [Qemu-devel] [REBASE PATCH v5 1/2] machine: add default_ram_size to machine class

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/04/2015 11:06, Nikunj A Dadhania wrote:
> > so David can push both patches.
> >
> > But isn't 1G a bit too much?  At least on x86 you can easily boot with 512M.
> 
> I understood this number as not the _minimum memory_ to boot the
> VM. And this will only come in picture when the user has not specified
> any memory.

This in turn will basically only happen for QEMU developers.  So keeping
the default on the low side would make sense.

On my (4G memory) laptop I might not even be able to boot a PPC64 VM
with 1G and TCG, but I can do that nicely with 256M.

Paolo

> I have seen the PPC64 VM booting with 256M.