[OmniOS-discuss] virtualbox installed on omnios latest stable

[Jared Morrow]

>
> What are you using to auto manage the startup/shutdown of KVM instances.
> I use
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/ with vbox.


In SmartOS I use their vmadm tool, and on OmniOS I just started it up by
hand and haven't shut it down since.  There is a project that came up on
this list to replicate vmadm on OmniOS, but the name escapes me right now.

Regarding high performance, I do some testing of Riak (our distributed data
store) on SmartOS->KVM->Linux and as long as I use the virtio driver I get
pretty decent performance.  For reference, FreeBSD and Centos5 need a
little bit of work to get virtio to work, but it isn't that hard.

-Jared




On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:

>  On 13-05-28 09:57 AM, Jared Morrow wrote:
>
> Have you considered using kvm instead of vbox?  Joyent ported kvm to
> illumos and use it for their hosting so I'm willing to be it has been
> tested far more than vbox on illumos.  I personally use kvm on both SmartOS
> and OmniOS.
>
>  -Jared
>
>
> Hi Jared.
>
> I have been using vbox on OpenIndiana and it has been working pretty
> well.
>
> What are you using to auto manage the startup/shutdown of KVM instances.
> I use
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/ with vbox.
>
> Out of curiosity, are you using any Linux VMs in KVM that has high disk
> IO/network throughput?  All my vbox instances are low usage, but I have
> been thinking about virtualizing a GlusterFS, because there is no good DFS
> option on illumos today.
>
> Geoff
>
>
>
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