On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Geoff Nordli <geo...@gnaa.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Geoff Flarity <geoff.flar...@gmail.com> >> 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. >
I agree, I am really glad to see more development around the features of KVM on IO/Illumos. If they can get the feature parity with Linux there is no doubt KVM is the best long-term hypervisor choice on OI/Illumos. have a great day!! Geoff _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss