Two questions specifically for Standalone VMs
- How to increase Swap disk size to prevent running out of ram?
- How to increase max amount of ram, capping out at 14.5GB?
Please help thank you.
You can add swap file instead of using the default /dev/xvdc1 partition for swap.
https://wiki.debian.org/Swap
You can increase the “Max memory” value in the qube’s Settings → Advanced tab.
for 1. I know how to do this with a normal linux installation, however is there anything extra which needs to be done for an existing standalone VM, where I want to increase swap from 1GB to 100GB so it works with Qubes ?
No, there shouldn’t be any Qubes-specific steps for standalone qube. Just remove/comment out the use of /dev/xvdc1 for swap from /etc/fstab and add the swap using swap file there.
Just did a dd to make the swapfile, strangely enough. I see the infile in /dev but I cannot see the swapfile itself anywhere ?
Where did my swap file go ?
What commands did you run?