[OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow performance of guests invirtualboxon OI?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

Might be worth a look indeed. FYI this is a supermicro x9scl-f motherboard
with Xeon e31230 cpu (4-core 3.2ghz) very state of the art, but not bleeding
edge, AFAIK... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nslookup at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:11 AM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Slow performance of guests invirtualboxon
OI?

On 4 December 2012 13:58, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
> On 2012-12-04 14:53, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:
>>> virtualboxon OI?
>>> IMHO try KVM...
>> Believe it or not, that ocurred to me too - but comments I've seen 
>> gave me the feeling it was still 'bleeding edge'...
> At the very least, this would require particular features from recent 
> Intel CPUs. On the statistical average, it is more probable that it 
> won't even start on your rig, than the other way around. But it does 
> not hurt to try (at least, if VBoxes are halted first - I have no idea 
> how several hypervisors would interact within one host).
>

You actually can't run VirtualBox on a machine with KVM installed ...
we use KVM to run a Windows Server (with an RDP server in it) and Linux
servers, it's not bleeding edge Intel CPU's that we're using ...
we're on "Dell PowerEdge T310"s with only the bulk standard 2.4Ghz cpu's

you just have to remember to turn on all the virtualization stuff in the
BIOS ...

might be worth a look.

PS. make sure you have a large swap area, KVM wants as much swap as memory
you grant to the KVM instance.

Jon

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