[OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow performance of guests in virtualbox on OI?

[Jorge Palma]

IMHO try KVM...
El 03/12/2012 22:29, "Dan Swartzendruber" <dswartz at druber.com> escribió:

>
> So I have an OI151a7 box.  Latest vbox is installed with several guests.
> Performance of a couple of windows7 VMs seems kind of jerky.  I started
> playing around with iperf and such to see if network was the issue.
>  Between
> guests on the same host and guests <===> host, I can barely crack 1gb (and
> in some cases am barely hitting 300mb/sec).  I know it's not the HW, since
> when I had ESXi on the same host, guests were able to hit 3-5gb/sec
> internally.  I am wondering if this is just virtualbox issues?  Disk I/O
> from guests seems fine - I run something like crystaldisk mark from a win7
> guest and can exceed 130MB/sec both ways.  But if I launch a browser
> window,
> it can take 4-5 seconds for it to appear, and clicking on links, likewise.
> The host is not remotely loaded down (for example, right now, with 4 guests
> running, load factor is 0.94).  I am trying to get my telecommuter VM and
> my
> wife's (both 32-bit XP) migrated to windows 7, and if it's going to be that
> laggy and slow, this will not fly with her (nor with me, for that matter!)
> The previous incarnation was ESXi on the host, OI151a7 as a VM with the HBA
> passed-in via vmdirectpath (pci passthru).  OI VM was on small local SSD
> with ESXi.  Performance absolutely rocked.  This is a major step down.
>  Even
> if I go back to the original plan, I'm still using OI as the NAS/SAN, but
> I'd rather get off ESXi (if only because there are monitoring functions I
> cannot run on the host...)  Any thoughts/ideas welcome...
>
>
>
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