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We want a small core VM (< 1 GB?) so the VM copy/clone operations are network friendly and reasonably fast.
We want a minimal linux install (no desktop software, etc).
Recommendations
There are lots of details which are not specified here.
We'll lean on PG Experts to make recommendations as needed.
For example, for the file system we could ext3 or xfs.
I don't have an opinion on this, even after a lecture.
To help make decisions in these cases we prefer simplicity (see above) and consistency (see our other centos machines).
Memory
We have plenty of memory.
PG Experts shall recommend values.
Disk Partitions
PG Experts shall recommend a size for each partition.
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