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commit 98a8b48a69b8208475c9a1e40d09517f8643b8cb
Author: Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Thu Sep 1 14:45:45 2022 +0200
doc: Suggest more RAM for "Running Guix in a VM".
Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57474>.
Reported by Michael F. Lamb <[email protected]>.
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(-)
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.
