Anytime you put install a portable dev environment running embedded guests on top of what amounts to commercial bloatware such as Windows, you'll have performance issues. Could also be as simple as how you built your VirtualBox (static disk = fast, dynamic disk = slow, less memory = more paging to disk = disk type matters). Technically speaking though assuming your budget is $0, VMware hypervisors are actually free ( http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere-hypervisor) and useful when comparing performance.
You need a dedicated machine for it but exploring options couldn't hurt. Mahalo, Adam *Adam Lawson* AQORN, Inc. 427 North Tatnall Street Ste. 58461 Wilmington, Delaware 19801-2230 Toll-free: (844) 4-AQORN-NOW ext. 101 International: +1 302-387-4660 Direct: +1 916-246-2072 On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:25 AM, Md. Maruful Hassan <mrf....@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Apologies if this has been answered previously. > > I have a working Openstack setup on my VM lab environment running under > Virtualbox. The instances launched run very very slowly (specially CentOS, > RHEL, Fedora images). I choose KVM as the hypervisor for Openstack compute > node so > that means running KVM under virtualbox. However, I needed to put > libvirt_type=qemu (instead of KVM) in nova.conf as virtualbox doesn't pass > VT-X to guest OSs. Is the slowness caused by this? Should I choose > something else like Vmware instead of Virtualbox? Any suggestion? > > Btw, virtualbox vdi files reside on SSD if this helps. > > thanks > -- > Maruf > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > >
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