Minimum VM Memory Size

[DarkainMX]

The minimum VM memory size is set to 512M right now in FreeNAS 11.1, which seems completely random and arbitrary. Is there any actual basis for this? It is basically being quite wasteful for ultra light weight VMs that don't use anywhere near that much RAM. The bhyve docs itself even states the "default" memsize is 256M, so it works. Why would FreeNAS set a hard minimum limit to twice the default value of bhyve, rather than letting the user make this choice on their own?

 

[Ericloewe]

Good question, file a bug report for this to be relaxed.

 

[dlavigne]

Where are you seeing that? It lets you set the min memory size. Or are you saying that it won't accept a value lower than 512M?