GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 664759
default hdd image size too small
Last modified: 2016-03-31 13:56:54 UTC
The default HDD image size of 2GB for unknown OSs is too small. This might be enough for a basic server install, but since gnome-boxes focuses on desktop users, it should give them a bit more space to allow installing a full graphical environment. For example, Arch Linux is not in the libosinfo database, therefore it gets an image size of 2GB. This is enough for a core install, but in order to install a full Gnome install (core + xorg + gnome + gnome-extra), it requires at least 2.5GB of space. Since qcow2 images are dynamically expanding, there is no reason to make them this small. VirtualBox uses a safe default of 8 gigabytes for its images. Proposed fix: Change DEFAULT_STORAGE inside os-database.vala to something higher.
Created attachment 202098 [details] [review] Bump default storage allocation to 20 GiB 1. This should be adequate storage for most OSs out there. 2. We use the dynamically growing storage format (qcow2) so actual amount of disk space used is completely dependent on the OS.
Created attachment 202101 [details] [review] Bump default storage allocation to 20 GiB 1. This should be adequate storage for most OSs out there. 2. We use the dynamically growing storage format (qcow2) so actual amount of disk space used is completely dependent on the OS.
Review of attachment 202101 [details] [review]: ack
Attachment 202101 [details] pushed as f960401 - Bump default storage allocation to 20 GiB