<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Peter Lambrechtsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plambrechtsen@gmail.com">plambrechtsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Peter Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrobinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">pbrobinson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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<br>With the overlay of 200MB, is it better to have more or less space for the overlay?<br><br>What would your memory and disk recommendations be for the ideal 32Bit VM.<br><br>And what options should I use with the livecd to disk:<div class="im">
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<br>/livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 200 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sda1<br><br></div>??</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>See <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/LiveOS_image</a> for some information on the storage options.</div>
<div>Also <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Livecd-iso-to-disk.pod">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Livecd-iso-to-disk.pod</a> has more help information for the script.</div><div><br></div><div>With VirtualBox3.2.6 in a Lynx 64-bit host and a Fedora 32-bit guest, I tested the Fedora-14<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">soas-i386-20100613.15.iso (no longer available, but should be similar to the builds at </span></font><a href="http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/soas/</span></font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">) using this installation script,</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-disk --overlay-size-mb 1000 --home-size-mb 200 --delete-home --unencrypted-home /dev/live /dev/sda1</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The command,</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> dmsetup status</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> before and after</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">yum install dkms gcc</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">yielded these results: 21376/2048000 and 868152/2048000 (512-byte segments)</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So it looks like at least 425 MiBytes of overlay is required for that installation.</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">then after</span></font></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br>
</span></font></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">./VboxLinuxAdditions-x86.run</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">dmsetup status showed 928872/204800 or 454 MiBytes of the overlay consumed.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> --Fred</span></font></div>
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