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Eh, it shouldn't take much effort. Put Arch (or something similar), use openbox or LXDE for a reasonably useful GUI and you have an image that takes ..maybe..
by fooker 10y ago
Eh, it shouldn't take much effort.
Put Arch (or something similar), use openbox or LXDE for a reasonably useful GUI and you have an image that takes ..maybe.. 100 megs when idle.
You do not have to do this from scratch each time, just clone the disk, or even better have a script that generates these images modulo some parameters.
- thinkmassive 10y agoServer VMs shouldn't require a window manager. They also shouldn't be idle during testing though, and I would think 512 MB is a reasonable minimum for doing anything useful. Double that for a database. My point is that you can get a laptop with 8GB RAM instead of 4GB and should pay for itself within a couple days.
- thinkmassive 10y ago...and yes, I'm aware this doesn't need to be done from scratch every time :) It's still a waste of time if you need to reduce a standard minimal Linux install whatsoever (ISO via Packer, Vagrant, Docker, whatever the case may be)