On 9/15/2010 8:00 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
> Hello listmates,
>
> I have been playing with Xen VM's and was wondering what the minimum
> RAM size in which you could run CentOS 5.5 (i386). So far I managed to
> install in 256 MB or 512 MB and then shrink the VM's RAM to 128 MB and
> still run the installation. Would anyone know why the install in a 128
> MB VM fails (even in text mode)?
>
If you are running VM's you can just copy a working image instead of
repeating the installs - and if you have fairly identical hardware you
can do the same with disk images on physical machines. It's more a
question of whether that's enough RAM to do anything useful once you are
running. In particular it doesn't seem like a great idea to run VM's at
all if you don't have RAM to spare.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com