On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Geoff Flarity <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Harry, >> >> I'd stick with VirtualBox if you're not looking to do anything >> serious. For example, say you just want to run Windows on your OI >> desktop. Especially if you're using the VirtualBox GUI. One issue that >> VirtualBox has is that it doesn't respect disk synchronization. >> >> Cheers, >> GF >> > > Hi Geoff. > > You can force vbox to flush the disk properly. > > VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" > "VBoxInternal/Devices/ahci/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" 0
Thanks, that's good to know. I've sent an email to Phoronix since that's the only useful source of benchmarks I've found. We use VBox for development VMs on developers laptops under OS X. Unifying the deployment environment is very appealing to me since I wear the DevOps hat. > Vbox has some nice features and is the core foundation for Oracle's > VDI solution, which is built on top of Solaris. I don't know if I > would use it for a heavy server workload (still determining this), but > for regular server workloads, it has performed well for me. > > Vbox has a new crossbow network stack, but it only works on Solaris 11 > builds >= 159. I am not sure what it would take to make it work > properly with OI, but that would be nice. This is my other concern with VBox. I won't be buying Solaris 11 anytime soon and I'm very doubtful VBox will get the proper love under Illumos. I've been playing around with SmartOS and I'm very impressed with KVM. I'd much rather pay Joyent support than Oracle should it come to that. > Geoff > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
