[OmniOS-discuss] virtualbox memory fault.

[Dale Ghent]

Is the vbox version you’re using on your new server different from that which you are using on existing ones?

Are you compiling vbox on OmniOS, or using the pre-compiled Solaris binaries from Oracle?

/dale

> On Jun 28, 2016, at 3:11 PM, Geoff Nordli <geoffn at gnaa.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-06-28 11:59 AM, John D Groenveld wrote:
>> In message <5772C723.80509 at gnaa.net>, Geoff Nordli writes:
>>> I am running OmniOS v11 r151018.
>>> 
>>> I have quite a few OI/Omnios OS boxes running Virtualbox.  I haven't see
>>> this before.  On a new server I just installed I am getting a memory
>>> fault right away when starting a vm.
>> Perhaps set disable_smap=1?
>> <URL:http://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2016-June/019049.html>
>> 
>> BTW have you done any benchmarking between VBox and KVM?
>> John
>> groenveld at acm.org
>> 
> 
> Hi John.
> 
> Yes, I set the disable_smap in the system and rebooted, but it doesn't seem to help.  That setting supposedly prevents the host from rebooting.
> 
> On a Windows Server 2012 R2 I am getting the following networking performance with iperf (default settings).
> 
> Client -> VM  903Mbps
> VM -> Client  572Mbps
> 
> I am focused on small business systems and protecting their data, so these numbers are more than good enough.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Geoff
> 
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