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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 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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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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