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doc: Suggest more RAM for "Running Guix in a VM".

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Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/57474>.
Reported by Michael F. Lamb <mike@orbital.rodeo>.

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".
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Ludovic Courtès 2022-09-01 14:45:45 +02:00
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@ -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.