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Unify VM resource minima in Daemon/CLI/GUI

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#3,777 opened on Nov 15, 2024

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What are you trying to do? We currently have a minimum of 512M for memory in the GUI, but 128M in CLI. Similar situation with disk: current minima are 512M in the CLI but 1G in the GUI.

What's your proposed solution? We should probably settle on a single value everywhere. Since the images themselves don't have documented minimum requirements, we should probably go with the safest boundary and so align CLI/Daemon with the GUI.

Additional context This should prevent problems like https://github.com/canonical/multipass/issues/3612.

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Locate the memory and disk minimum constants in the Daemon, CLI, and GUI code, and update them to match the GUI settings. Then ensure tests pass.
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