On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:01 AM, James Records <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh, Qemu performance is horrible, I don't know if there is any work being > done to make kqemu work, but I just use it more as a proof of concept, if > your wanting to run VM's for performance, this is not the route to go, > IMO... > > J > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Bryan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09, Vijay Sankar <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > I was running three instances of Windows 2000 Server and one Windows 2003 >> > server on a Dell 2900 -- two IIS servers, and two SQL Servers for testing >> > purposes a while ago. Here is some info on how I was doing it at that >> time >> > -- >> > >> >> > Each vm guest was started with a command similar to the following: >> > >> > sudo env ETHER=bnx1 qemu \ >> > -net nic,vlan=0,model=rtl8139,macaddr=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:XX \ >> > -net tap,vlan=0 -m 384 -no-fd-bootchk -localtime \ >> > -hda whatever.img -nographic >> > >> > XX was F1, F2, F3, and F4 w2k3, w2k, appint and appext images >> respectively >> > >> > I used nographic because it was easier to use rdesktop and rdp from other >> > systems to access the vm guests instead of being at the console. >> > >> >> Do you notice any performance gains by running them like this? I'm >> running one instance of XP on a dual-core box with 4GB of RAM, and >> it's slow as hell. I'd try running Windows 7, but the ACPI fails, and >> I can't allocate 1GB of RAM with the version we have in ports to do >> the initial install. > >
kqemu is in ports and packages. I believe running OpenBSD as a guest has problems, but in my experience it doesn't really need it when you run it under OpenBSD itself. -- Aaron Mason - Programmer, open source addict I've taken my software vows - for beta or for worse
