Question about defaults for VM memory

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Hello,

How does foreman decide what the defaults are for memory when provision VMs
via the webui?

Sometimes when creating VMs to test provisioning configs, I forget to
adjust to memory (I usually use about 2 gig to be safe). Foreman defaults
to 768MB.

I am wondering if that is enough, RHEL Kickstart for example seems to have
issues even with 1 gig.

We don't seem to have anyway right now of making the defaults tied to the
OSs recommendations.

I can create an RFE to raise the default, but I figure I would ask here
first to see what peoples thoughts where.

Thanks,
-Perry

2

Hi Perry,

we default to 768MB by default unless the value comes from the compute
profile. I agree that 1 GB would be a better default. But if you configure a
value for a compute profile that you specify also in a hostgroup that you use
for provisioning, you de facto configure your own default.

··· -- Marek

On středa 15. listopadu 2017 20:51:40 CET Perry Gagne wrote:

Hello,

How does foreman decide what the defaults are for memory when provision VMs
via the webui?

Sometimes when creating VMs to test provisioning configs, I forget to
adjust to memory (I usually use about 2 gig to be safe). Foreman defaults
to 768MB.

I am wondering if that is enough, RHEL Kickstart for example seems to have
issues even with 1 gig.

We don’t seem to have anyway right now of making the defaults tied to the
OSs recommendations.

I can create an RFE to raise the default, but I figure I would ask here
first to see what peoples thoughts where.

Thanks,
-Perry