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.