[Lazarus] FPC & Lazarus installation including cross compiling from source

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 2012/3/28 Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at ...:
>>
>> Here it takes only a few minutes.
> 
> +1
> 
> I see no visible difference in speed between my native host system,
> and the VM sessions I run. I have a lot of VM sessions for our product
> testing and building, and yes, I do FPC building on them too.

IMO the most critical point is the memory configuration. VMs tend to use 
fixed memory, i.e. the virtual RAM is mapped to persistent physical RAM, 
reducing the available RAM on the host machine. One can play around with 
different amounts of virtual memory, starting with 512MB, to find out 
the best configuration for the host machine.

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