Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Petri Rosenström" <petri.rosenstrom@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1?
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:05:57
Message-Id: AANLkTim2agsGEUNixne6g4YAEq0uB0nsQnQiDARUpVYV@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Virtualization where to go from VMWare-Server-1? by walt
1 Well I haven't done any testing, but I have a feeling that using
2 virtio drivers makes qemu faster. But I agree that using a desktop is
3 faster with vbox. Atleast using the mouse :D
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5 Petri Rosenström
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9 On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:09 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > On 08/28/2010 03:21 AM, Petri Rosenström wrote:
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12 >> I think it requires HVM ( egrep '^flags.*(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo )
13 >> from the CPU. So if kvm doesn't work you may use your VMs with qemu.
14 >> Qemu/kvm supports VMware disc format so you might be able to use your
15 >> old VMs without much effort.
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17 > I find that vbox is *much* faster than qemu in the absence of hardware
18 > virtualization support.  The vbox devs say their graphics driver is what
19 > makes it faster.
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