From f776932718d6ce573af5a2b74b24288bc9aa9142 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: BobCochran Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2015 08:11:44 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Edited virtual machines sections. --- docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md b/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md index 5b9e0408e827..505cb4d5f046 100644 --- a/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md +++ b/docs/development/build-instructions-linux.md @@ -27,15 +27,7 @@ managers such as yum. Or one can compile from source code. ## If You Use Virtual Machines For Building If you plan to build electron on a virtual machine, you will need a fixed-size -device container of at least 25 gigabytes in size. The default disk sizes -suggested by VirtualBox are much too small. You will risk running out of space. -If creating a Ubuntu virtual machine under VirtualBox, do not partition the -disk using LVM, which is the Ubuntu installer default. Instead do all -partitioning with ext4 which is offered as an alternative to LVM. This way -if your vdi container does run out of space, you can use VirtualBox and gparted -utilities to increase the container size without needing to resize -LVM Volume Groups as an additional task. You may never have a need for LVM -in a virtual machine. +device container of at least 25 gigabytes in size. ## Getting the code