Don't know about a VM. But I've run Lazarus on a 256 MB, Celeron 1 GHz machine, and it ran without problems.

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Will Lazarus work well on a 512Mb VM with a provider like Linode or Slicehost?

Has anyone tried it?

I use it in a VM with Windows 2000 and 512 Mb. ram.

I'm guessing you wish use some form of remote desktop to access the VM, so I'd be more worried about the internet connection speed that the actual VM.

I'm running Lazarus on a Virtual Box VM with 512 MB, which at time may be a little slow, but otherwise there is no problems using a "low" RAM machine.

Kind regards,
Torsten Bonde Christiansen.

Another thing that came to mind is whether it is a good idea for the FreePascal community to use preconfigured VMs to develop the software on Linux that way whenever there are incompatibility problems they are easier to trace.

Having EC2 images to test with or for users to have as their basis for their personal machines would help.

Zitat von Michael Van Canneyt :

I use it in a VM with Windows 2000 and 512 Mb. ram. No 0.9.29 uses less memory than 0.9.28 and has less memory fragmentation.

Mattias

Frank Church wrote

Will Lazarus work well on a 512Mb VM with a provider like Linode or Slicehost? Has anyone tried it?

You had some answers, I can only give one other tip: if low on memory, disable smartlinking as much as possible. Then you should be able to get the memory requirement of FPC to about 100-150MB. (and then Lazarus)

The linking stage usually eats most.