From b4319dad39ca4cef0c4721405fc7974c1bece1d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Bowdre Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 17:06:35 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] add note about win11 space requirement --- .../create-vms-chromebook-hashicorp-vagrant/index.md | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/create-vms-chromebook-hashicorp-vagrant/index.md b/content/posts/create-vms-chromebook-hashicorp-vagrant/index.md index 4c742f8..1051147 100644 --- a/content/posts/create-vms-chromebook-hashicorp-vagrant/index.md +++ b/content/posts/create-vms-chromebook-hashicorp-vagrant/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- title: "Create Virtual Machines on a Chromebook with HashiCorp Vagrant" # Title of the blog post. date: 2023-02-20 # Date of post creation. -lastmod: 2023-02-21 +lastmod: 2023-02-25 description: "Pairing the powerful Linux Development Environment on modern Chromebooks with HashiCorp Vagrant to create and manage local virtual machines for development and testing" # Description used for search engine. featured: true # Sets if post is a featured post, making appear on the home page side bar. draft: false # Sets whether to render this page. Draft of true will not be rendered. @@ -196,6 +196,10 @@ vagrant destroy ### Create a heavy VM, as a treat Having proven to myself that Vagrant does work on a Chromebook, let's see how it does with a slightly-heavier VM.... like [Windows 11](https://app.vagrantup.com/oopsme/boxes/windows11-22h2). +{{% notice info "Space Requirement" %}} +Windows 11 makes for a pretty hefty VM which will require significant storage space. My Chromebook's Linux environment ran out of storage space the first time I attempted to deploy this guy. Fortunately ChromeOS makes it easy to allocate more space to Linux (**Settings > Advanced > Developers > Linux development environment > Disk size**). You'll probably need at least 30GB free to provision this VM. +{{% /notice %}} + Again, I'll create a new folder to hold the Vagrant configuration and do a `vagrant init`: ```shell mkdir vagrant-win11 @@ -216,7 +220,7 @@ end [^ram]: Note here that `libvirt.memory` is specified in MB. Windows 11 boots happily with 4096 MB of RAM.... and somewhat less so with just 4 MB. *Ask me how I know...* -Now it's time to bring it up. This one's going to take A While as it syncs the ~6GB Box first. +Now it's time to bring it up. This one's going to take A While as it syncs the ~12GB Box first. ```shell vagrant up ```