[OmniOS-discuss] virtualbox installed on omnios latest stable

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-05-28 01:26 PM, Jared Morrow wrote:
> Again, this is what I just have laying around with no tuning.  Again 
> switching from the terrible KVM e1000 driver to the KVM virtio driver 
> with FreeBSD as the guest.
>
>   * Network Test
>       o Test used: simple scp from machine on same rack
>           + Old (e1000) = ubuntu-12.04.1-server-amd64.iso        100% 
>             657MB 6.4MB/s   01:42
>           + New (virtio) = ubuntu-12.04.1-server-amd64.iso       
>             100%  657MB 34.6MB/s   00:19
>
> I'm willing to bet someone has more extensive testing than me.  This 
> was just a stupid simple test I did to see if the change made a 
> difference.  For my general use in testing Riak I found that 
> network/fs is way way faster on illumos KVM than AWS even when 
> untuned.  Also it is not so much slower than the global zone that it 
> affects general performance.  If I was making a cluster dedicated to 
> just writing files fast, then I'd personally go with OmniOS or SmartOS 
> directly, but if you have other linux needs anyway, it is reasonable 
> in my view.  Theo or Eric might have more insightful answer since 
> their job is run stuff like this in production.
>
> FWIW, I used to run all this stuff on virtualbox and had so so so many 
> problems I couldn't take it anymore.
>
>

Thanks for sharing, it is fun to see what people are getting on their 
different setups.

Hopefully more people will post some performance numbers they are 
getting with KVM+Linux guest.

Have a great day!!

Geoff
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