Make virtualbox-image build memory size configurable

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Make virtualbox-image build memory size configurable #266

Closed zefhemel closed 11 years ago

zefhemel commented 11 years ago

Currently it's fixed at 2GB, which for our purposes is not high enough (LogicBlox images). Therefore we would require the memorySize to be configurable: https://github.com/NixOS/nixos/blob/master/modules/virtualisation/virtualbox-image.nix#L9

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edolstra commented 11 years ago

The real question here is: why does a simple rsync take more than 2 GB of memory? So we should not make this configurable, we should fix the memory consumption.

zefhemel commented 11 years ago

That's fine too, whatever fixes the problem. Currently this is blocking new VM releases.

zefhemel commented 11 years ago

Excellent. Thanks.