Slightly off topic but I've noticed that the scripts used to create the vm templates are slightly out of sync between 32bit and 64bit. I just assumed nobody used 64bit and that's why it got out of sync.
Darren > On Oct 23, 2013, at 7:21 AM, Marty Sweet <msweet....@gmail.com> wrote: > > What would be the main reasoning behind this change? Surely the > minimalistic specifications that SystemVMs are assigned suit 32-bit better > in terms of Memory? > > "The main disadvantage of 64-bit architectures is that, relative to 32-bit > architectures, the same data occupies more space in memory (due to longer > pointers and possibly other types, and alignment padding). This increases > the memory requirements of a given process and can have implications for > efficient processor cache utilization." > > > On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Abhinandan Prateek < > abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com> wrote: > >>> On 23/10/13 3:48 pm, "David Nalley" <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Abhinandan Prateek >>> <abhinandan.prat...@citrix.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> We are planning to make 64-bit system vm templates as default >>>> offering in 4.2.1. >>>> This is an initial email to have thoughts from the community on this. >>>> >>>> -abhi >>> >>> -1 >>> Who is this we? >>> I agree with Wido We adhere to semver, and accordingly 4.2.1 should be >>> a bugfix release. >> >> We were some of the fellow committers, even I was of the same thinking but >> thought it will be good to have a general opinion. >> >> -abhi >> >>
