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On 04/08/2013 19:55, Pandu Poluan wrote: |
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> On Aug 4, 2013 5:48 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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> <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>> wrote: |
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>> On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: |
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>> > Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter |
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>> > so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a |
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> guest. |
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>> > I'm not entirely certain as to where VirtualBox stands with regard to |
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>> > PVOPS support [1] but it would probably also help to enable |
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>> > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST (even though there are no directly applicable |
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>> > sub-options). |
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>> How well or otherwise does it perform? |
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>> I have a bunch of minimal VMs in a dev environment using Intel Pro1000, |
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>> and have considered changing to virtio. But it's a lot of work to do[1] |
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>> so someone else's opinion first would be nice. |
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>> [1] They are Gentoo VMs but don't have sources installed and can't |
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>> compile a kernel with the mere 256G RAM I give them. So the entire |
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>> kernel+modules has to be built somewhere else and scp'ed to the VM. |
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>> hence "lot of work" |
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>> -- |
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>> Alan McKinnon |
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>> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com <mailto:alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> Good Lord! Your VM has 256 GB of RAM?? |
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> That's even larger than some virtualization hosts we have in the company... |
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:-) |
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They are *gentoo* vms though, and have to do things non-gentoo hosts |
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don't have to do. Like build gcc for example, and run portage. |
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Both of those beasts are memory-hungry. Without them, they would |
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probably run just fine on 64M but I haven't bothered trying - the host |
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has 16G and even with every VM running they still us less than a third |
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of all memory |
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I sometimes shake my head and wonder about current RAM usage. I'm old |
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enough to remember programming a Sinclair Mk XIV with 256 bytes of RAM. |
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An upgrade to 512 bytes was a significant and rather expensive upgrade :-) |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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