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    gentoo: Raise minimal requirements and add recommended ones · 8a6a7752
    Michal Privoznik authored
    
    
    There an issue filled against libvirt that basically boils down
    to not enough memory being set by default for Gentoo live ISO.
    No surprise there - we claim the minimal requirement is 256MiB
    (!). And live ISO starts a KDE session on boot.
    
    Now, it's hard to come up with something that'll work in 100%
    cases and still be minimal. There's this recommendation in
    Gentoo's handbook [1], but the page was last edited in 2014.
    
    Anyway, I've tried to boot the live ISO and the VM was using
    ~1.5GiB of memory. So let's put the minimum as 2GiB as it could
    grant enough memory for emerge/compilation or basic system tools.
    
    And while at it, recommend 4GiB of RAM and 20GiB of storage.
    There are packages that require much more, e.g.
    www-client/chrominum may require up to 16GiB [2], but that's
    rather exception. And recently, Gentoo added support for binary
    packages too which helps to save some memory as users don't need
    to compile packages themselves.
    
    1: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Full/Installation#Hardware_requirements
    2: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/blob/master/www-client/chromium/chromium-125.0.6422.14.ebuild#L352
    Resolves: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/600
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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