From d1c3a49fdd110aee082467af8e9ae8213613971e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2021 00:55:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] vmTools: set msize to 16KiB temporarily

hopefully this will reduce the ram usage enough
---
 pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix b/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix
index e403b27d9690..09a56fda7b7f 100644
--- a/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/build-support/vm/default.nix
@@ -1179,5 +1179,6 @@ rec {
   # See: https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/9psetup#msize
   # Use 128KiB which is the default in linux 5.15+
   # https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9c4d94dc9a64426d2fa0255097a3a84f6ff2eebe
-  default9PMsizeBytes = 128 * 1024;
+  # TODO: actually set it to 128KiB, it was causing failures in many tests due to memory usage
+  default9PMsizeBytes = 16 * 1024;
 }