[OpenIndiana-discuss] minimum swap requirements for VirtualBox on OI

Jake Goerzen jakegoerzen at gmail.com
Wed Aug 28 22:06:22 UTC 2013


Greetings,

What are the minimum swap space requirements to use openindiana as a 
VirtualBox host?

According to the wiki documentation 
(http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox) in order to *run* 
VirtualBox VMs, available on-disk swap space is required (sized as the 
VM's RAM size), even if the swap space is not really actively used.

It appears the OI installer defaults the swap to 50% RAM size during 
install.  Seems like setting swap size at 100% RAM size is a safer bet 
for a Virtualbox host.  What have others set swap at, particularly on 
systems with lots of RAM hosting many VirtualBox VM's?

Thanks,
/Jake


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