[gnome-boxes] help: More info on hardware requirements
- From: Zeeshan Ali Khattak <zeeshanak src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-boxes] help: More info on hardware requirements
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 22:44:31 +0000 (UTC)
commit d6eb6e2900bea3d2b589939912d964d399d828d8
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Tue Mar 5 18:30:24 2013 +0000
help: More info on hardware requirements
Co-author: Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) <zeeshanak gnome org>
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=670766
help/C/system-requirements.page | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 38 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/system-requirements.page b/help/C/system-requirements.page
index 67d1271..4837379 100644
--- a/help/C/system-requirements.page
+++ b/help/C/system-requirements.page
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
type="topic" style="task"
id="system-requirements">
+
<info>
<revision pkgversion="3.8.0" version="0.1" date="2013-03-25" status="candidate"/>
<link type="guide" xref="index#start" group="#first" />
@@ -15,23 +16,47 @@
<email>mdhillca gmail com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
- <desc>What you need to run Boxes.</desc>
+ <credit type="author copyright editor">
+ <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
+ <email>kittykat3756 gmail com</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
+ <credit type="author copyright editor">
+ <name>Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)</name>
+ <email>zeeshanak gnome org</email>
+ <years>2013</years>
+ </credit>
+
+ <desc>Hardware requirements for running a virtual machine using <app>Boxes</app>.</desc>
</info>
- <title>Set up your system</title>
+ <title>Get started with virtual machines</title>
+
+ <p>Your computer should meet certain criteria for best performance when
+ creating and running virtual machines in <app>Boxes</app>. These
+ requirements are specified by the vendors of the operating systems.
+ <app>Boxes</app> automatically allocates resources to virtual machines
+ based on vendor recommendations. When such information is unavailable to
+ <app>Boxes</app>, it allocates the following:</p>
- <p>To create and run virtual machines in <app>Boxes</app>, your computer
- must meet certain requirements:</p>
<list>
- <comment><p>have a page to check cpu extensions</p></comment>
- <item><p>Have virtualization extensions available in the <sys>CPU</sys> and
- active in the <sys>BIOS</sys>.</p></item>
- <item><p>Have the <sys>kvm</sys> linux module loaded. This should be done
- automatically.</p></item>
- <item><p>Have disk space. You'll need at least 8 GB of disk per virtual
- machine.</p></item>
- <item><p>Have enought memory. You'll need around 1 GB of RAM per virtual
- machine active.</p></item>
+ <item>
+ <p>20 GB of maximum storage space .</p>
+ <note style="advanced">
+ <p>This does not mean that <app>Boxes</app> will allocate 20 GB of space
+ when creating the virtual machine. The actual disk space used by
+ <app>Boxes</app> will be less than (or in worst case, equal to) disk
+ space used by virtual machine itself.</p>
+ </note>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>500 MB of RAM.</p>
+ </item>
</list>
+ <note style="advanced">
+ <p><app>Boxes</app> performs best if your computer processor supports
+ <em>hardware virtualisation extensions</em> and if these are <link
href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Virtualization_Guide/sect-Virtualization-Troubleshooting-Enabling_Intel_VT_and_AMD_V_virtualization_hardware_extensions_in_BIOS.html">enabled
in the system BIOS</link>.</p>
+ </note>
+
</page>
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