Re: Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Le 03/09/2013 16:53, Alan Somers a écrit : >> GELI is full-disk encryption. It's far superior to ZFS encryption. > > Yup, but is there a possibility to encrypt a ZFS volume (not a whole > pool) with a separate GELI partition? You mean encrypt a zvol with GELI and put a file system on that? I suppose that would work, but I bet that it would be slow. > > Also, in-ZFS encryption would be a nice thing if it could work like an > LVM/LUKS where each logical LVM volume can be encrypted or not and have > its own crypt key. My understanding is that this is exactly how Oracle's ZFS encryption works. Each ZFS filesystem can have its own key, or be in plaintext. Every cryptosystem involves a tradeoff between security and convenience, and ZFS encryption goes fairly hard toward convenience. In particular, Oracle decided that encrypted files must be deduplicatable. A necessary result is that they are trivially vulnerable to watermarking attacks. https://blogs.oracle.com/darren/entry/zfs_encryption_what_is_on > > I saw that Illumos has ZFS encrytion in the TODO list. > > -- > Florent Peterschmitt | Please: > flor...@peterschmitt.fr| * Avoid HTML/RTF in E-mail. > +33 (0)6 64 33 97 92 | * Send PDF for documents. > http://florent.peterschmitt.fr | * Trim your quotations. Really. > Proudly powered by Open Source | Thank you :) > ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3
Le 03/09/2013 16:53, Alan Somers a écrit : > GELI is full-disk encryption. It's far superior to ZFS encryption. Yup, but is there a possibility to encrypt a ZFS volume (not a whole pool) with a separate GELI partition? Also, in-ZFS encryption would be a nice thing if it could work like an LVM/LUKS where each logical LVM volume can be encrypted or not and have its own crypt key. I saw that Illumos has ZFS encrytion in the TODO list. -- Florent Peterschmitt | Please: flor...@peterschmitt.fr| * Avoid HTML/RTF in E-mail. +33 (0)6 64 33 97 92 | * Send PDF for documents. http://florent.peterschmitt.fr | * Trim your quotations. Really. Proudly powered by Open Source | Thank you :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Le 03/09/2013 14:14, Emre Çamalan a écrit : >> Hi, >> I want to encrypt some disk on my server with Zfs encryption property but it >> is not available. > > "That would require ZFS v30. As far as I am aware Oracle has not > released the code under CDDL." Oracle's ZFS encryption is crap anyway. It works at the filesystem level, not the pool level, so a lot of metadata is in plaintext; I don't remember how much exactly. It's also highly vulnerable to watermarking attacks. > > From http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30036 > > So you can use ZFS pools on GELI volumes, it can be a good start. I not > play with it. GELI is full-disk encryption. It's far superior to ZFS encryption. > > -- > Florent Peterschmitt | Please: > flor...@peterschmitt.fr| * Avoid HTML/RTF in E-mail. > +33 (0)6 64 33 97 92 | * Send PDF for documents. > http://florent.peterschmitt.fr | * Trim your quotations. Really. > Proudly powered by Open Source | Thank you :) > ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3
Le 03/09/2013 14:14, Emre Çamalan a écrit : > Hi, > I want to encrypt some disk on my server with Zfs encryption property but it > is not available. "That would require ZFS v30. As far as I am aware Oracle has not released the code under CDDL." From http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=30036 So you can use ZFS pools on GELI volumes, it can be a good start. I not play with it. -- Florent Peterschmitt | Please: flor...@peterschmitt.fr| * Avoid HTML/RTF in E-mail. +33 (0)6 64 33 97 92 | * Send PDF for documents. http://florent.peterschmitt.fr | * Trim your quotations. Really. Proudly powered by Open Source | Thank you :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Zfs encryption property for freebsd 8.3
Hi,
I want to encrypt some disk on my server with Zfs encryption property but it is
not available.
Are there anybody have got an experience about this?
[url]http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-1448/gkkih.html#scrolltoc[/url]
[url]http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/servers-storage-admin/manage-zfs-encryption-1715034.html[/url]
These are good explanations but I got an error and output shows all property;
[root@HP ~]# zpool status
pool: output
state: ONLINE
scan: none requested
config:
NAMESTATE READ WRITE CKSUM
output ONLINE 0 0 0
ad0s1eONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
[root@HP ~]# zfs create -o encryption=on output/home
cannot create 'output/home': invalid property 'encryption'
[root@HP ~]# zfs get encryption
bad property list: invalid property 'encryption'
usage:
get [-rHp] [-d max] [-o "all" | field[,...]] [-t type[,...]] [-s
source[,...]]
<"all" | property[,...]> [filesystem|volume|snapshot] ...
The following properties are supported:
PROPERTY EDIT INHERIT VALUES
availableNO NO
clones NO NO [,...]
compressratioNO NO <1.00x or higher if compressed>
creation NO NO
defer_destroyNO NO yes | no
mounted NO NO yes | no
origin NO NO
refcompressratio NO NO <1.00x or higher if compressed>
referenced NO NO
type NO NO filesystem | volume | snapshot
used NO NO
usedbychildren NO NO
usedbydatasetNO NO
usedbyrefreservation NO NO
usedbysnapshots NO NO
userrefs NO NO
written NO NO
aclinherit YES YES discard | noallow | restricted |
passthrough | passthrough-x
aclmode YES YES discard | groupmask | passthrough |
restricted
atime YES YES on | off
canmountYES NO on | off | noauto
casesensitivity NO YES sensitive | insensitive | mixed
checksumYES YES on | off | fletcher2 | fletcher4 | sha256
compression YES YES on | off | lzjb | gzip | gzip-[1-9] | zle
copies YES YES 1 | 2 | 3
dedup YES YES on | off | verify | sha256[,verify]
devices YES YES on | off
execYES YES on | off
jailed YES YES on | off
logbias YES YES latency | throughput
mlslabelYES YES
mountpoint YES YES| legacy | none
nbmand YES YES on | off
normalizationNO YES none | formC | formD | formKC | formKD
primarycacheYES YES all | none | metadata
quota YES NO| none
readonlyYES YES on | off
recordsize YES YES 512 to 128k, power of 2
refquotaYES NO| none
refreservation YES NO| none
reservation YES NO| none
secondarycache YES YES all | none | metadata
setuid YES YES on | off
sharenfsYES YES on | off | share(1M) options
sharesmbYES YES on | off | sharemgr(1M) options
snapdir YES YES hidden | visible
syncYES YES standard | always | disabled
utf8only NO YES on | off
version YES NO 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | current
volblocksize NO YES 512 to 128k, power of 2
volsize YES NO
vscan YES YES on | off
xattr YES YES on | off
userused@... NO NO
groupused@...NO NO
userquota@... YES NO| none
groupquota@... YES NO| none
written@ NO NO
Sizes are specified in bytes with standard units such as K, M, G, etc.
User-defined properties can be specified by using a name containing a colon (:).
The {user|group}{used|quota}@ properties must be appended with
a user or group specifier of one of these forms:
POSIX name (eg: "matt")
POSIX id(eg: "126829")
SMB name@domain (eg: "matt@sun")
SMB SID (eg: "S-1-234-567-89")
[root@HP ~]#
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How can I use or add encryption property to FreeBsd 8.3?
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Re: HP ILO FreeBSD 8.3 Installation problem
SOLUTION: Hi, USB memstick img file is solution for me. I try FreeBSD-8.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img. I downloaded this img file and copy to USB, not burn it to USB. Then attach to İLO such as USB virtual image then sysinstall start, BUT I selected installation from usb install NOT CD/DVD installation. thanks for your answers. 04.07.2013, 17:58, "Emre Çamalan" : > Hi, > I'm trying to install FreeBSD with an HP ILO 4 advanced, web interface. I > tried to install FreeBSD 8.2, FreeBSD 8.3 and FreeBSD 8.4. I tried to use > acd0 and cd0 as media. I got the same result. Details about the problem I > attach pictures. > > ERROR: I'm trying to add freebsd8.3iso from ILO such as virtual drive not > from cd or dvd. > > Error: mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) > > other ERROR: > Unable to initialize selected media. Would you like to adjust your media > configuration and try again? > > , > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
HP ILO FreeBSD 8.3 Installation problem
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD with an HP ILO 4 advanced, web interface. I tried to install FreeBSD 8.2, FreeBSD 8.3 and FreeBSD 8.4. I tried to use acd0 and cd0 as media. I got the same result. Details about the problem I attach pictures. ERROR: I'm trying to add freebsd8.3iso from ILO such as virtual drive not from cd or dvd. Error: mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Input/output error (5) other ERROR: Unable to initialize selected media. Would you like to adjust your media configuration and try again? ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
being a lot like using a poor wireless mouse. My thanks to everyone who took time to help me. by the way anyone know WHY BIOS is over control of that CPU feature? It is quite scary to know that my FreeBSD system isn't really under FreeBSD control. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On 07/15/2012 02:39, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:29:59 -0700 > Doug Barton wrote: > >> For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem >> with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade. > > And *that* solved the problem. The performance is much better, now > being a lot like using a poor wireless mouse. > > My thanks to everyone who took time to help me. I'm glad to help, and more glad that it was that simple of a solution. :) Doug -- Change is hard. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:29:59 -0700 Doug Barton wrote: > For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem > with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade. And *that* solved the problem. The performance is much better, now being a lot like using a poor wireless mouse. My thanks to everyone who took time to help me. http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sa., 14. Jul. 2012 12:11:41 CEST, Mike Meyer wrote: > I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core > SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. > > Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest > performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests > see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. Does the VM use multiple vCPUs? Does reducing to one vcpu help? I have seen a lot of instabilities and problems in the past when using more than one vcpu. Where is that cpu locked reported? You could also try to build the vbox port with debug option enabled and look at VBox.log which gives probably useful information in case there are soft errors that cause the slowdown or if some of the vt-x features were incorrectly detected and vbox had to fallback to the recompiler (=slow). > Googling turns up lots of problems with VBox on SandyBridge: Mac's > running on 64 bit kernels have this problem - running on 32 bit > kernels helps. Turning off Intel's SpeedStep has been reported to > help. Turning off VT-X in the guest - if it's a 32-bit guest - > helps. The last one is the only one that actually helped me. Just to be sure which vbox version are we talking about? You could try emulators/virtualbox-ose-legacy to verify if it is a regression of 4.1.x. > I was wondering if anyone here had run into and solved similar > problems? Or if they were running a similar system, and didn't run > into that problem? Especially anyone running 9.0 instead of 8.X I've not heard about that before so it wasn't reported at least. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install. Are you talking about the guest additions? They're already installed (on a VM that was running on an older Core 2 CPU). Performance sucks. something must be wrong with linux interacting with virtualbox. Won't help you as i never used linux on it, and actually at all for long time. In windows you have to install "guest additions" without this it is plain terrible. I haven't managed to get through an install on a 64-bit windows system Windows 7 64-bit installs fine. FreeBSD 8.3, vbox 4.0.12 sandy bridge? Yes, I'm sure that every guest OS I've tried on a 64 bit guest sucks. I'm busy recreating 32-bit versions of the 64-bit guests where I can. maybe. i didn't do very detailed tests. and don't use 64-bit guest in production. problems with latency you describe Could you send me the system settings (VT-X, PAE, etc.) you used for this? Everything that is possible enable in BIOS, FreeBSD/amd64 8.3-stable (like month old or so), virtualbox 4.0.12 no fancy tricks, custom kernel but nothing special. If you need more ask on priv. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Warren Block wrote: In a VM with stock settings (Linux 64-bit), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop Live CD works okay, installed also seems to work okay. The mouse is a little draggy but usable, like using a wireless mouse. kern.hz is set to 100 on the host (9-stable, er 9.1-BETA1, amd64). This is without guest additions. Trying the VirtualBox menu "install guest additions" made it crash. The only mouse problem I saw was the mouse pointer disappearing when over some preferences icons. Switched to XUbuntu because the menus were irritating in plain Ubuntu. No serious problems there either, and at least the package manager is locatable. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade. hth, Doug -- Change is hard. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > > 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I moved a VM from the previous system, where > it worked fine (same build of FreeBSD, same build of VirtualBox). The > OS seems to be irrelevant. Windows XP and 7 and mumble all have this > problem, *if* I have VT-X enabled in VirtualBox. If I disable VT-X, > the ones I have tested so far worked fine. I'm still getting 32-bit > builds of some of them, as you can't turn VT-X off in a 64-bit guest. If possible, set VM to single cpu. Also not sure how you migrated machines. Occasionally the VM export/import functionality has produced silliness. Try creating new VM from scratch then attaching existing VM disk(s) to it. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:13:50 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: Can you give a specific Linux version that has problems? I'm willing to download and test it on this i5/9-stable/amd64 system. Haven't noticed any problems, but I only occasionally boot Ubuntu in a VM for a little bit. 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I moved a VM from the previous system, where it worked fine (same build of FreeBSD, same build of VirtualBox). The OS seems to be irrelevant. Windows XP and 7 and mumble all have this problem, *if* I have VT-X enabled in VirtualBox. If I disable VT-X, the ones I have tested so far worked fine. I'm still getting 32-bit builds of some of them, as you can't turn VT-X off in a 64-bit guest. In a VM with stock settings (Linux 64-bit), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop Live CD works okay, installed also seems to work okay. The mouse is a little draggy but usable, like using a wireless mouse. kern.hz is set to 100 on the host (9-stable, er 9.1-BETA1, amd64). This is without guest additions. Trying the VirtualBox menu "install guest additions" made it crash. The only mouse problem I saw was the mouse pointer disappearing when over some preferences icons. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:13:50 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: > Can you give a specific Linux version that has problems? I'm willing to > download and test it on this i5/9-stable/amd64 system. Haven't noticed > any problems, but I only occasionally boot Ubuntu in a VM for a little > bit. 64-bit Ubuntu LTS 12.04. I moved a VM from the previous system, where it worked fine (same build of FreeBSD, same build of VirtualBox). The OS seems to be irrelevant. Windows XP and 7 and mumble all have this problem, *if* I have VT-X enabled in VirtualBox. If I disable VT-X, the ones I have tested so far worked fine. I'm still getting 32-bit builds of some of them, as you can't turn VT-X off in a 64-bit guest. Thanks, http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote: I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. Can you give a specific Linux version that has problems? I'm willing to download and test it on this i5/9-stable/amd64 system. Haven't noticed any problems, but I only occasionally boot Ubuntu in a VM for a little bit. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:27:11 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox > > performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means > > all 64 bit guests). > i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install. Are you talking about the guest additions? They're already installed (on a VM that was running on an older Core 2 CPU). Performance sucks. > In windows you have to install "guest additions" without this it is plain > terrible. I haven't managed to get through an install on a 64-bit windows system yet to try that. However, that Linux doesn't Linux, or for the 32-bit > >> Windows runs great (as for windows of course) under VBox. > > Not for me. *Every* 64-bit guest OS has sucky performance. Linux, > Are you sure with two level pagetables featured in modern CPUs including > sandy bridge? Yes, I'm sure that every guest OS I've tried on a 64 bit guest sucks. I'm busy recreating 32-bit versions of the 64-bit guests where I can. > > Are you only running 32-bit guests? Are you running on 9.x or 8.x? > for production - yes (6 instances of windows XP). Virtualbox does never > make main workload for me, it is just addon. On FreeBSD 8.3. Could you tell me if they all have VT-X disabled? > But i've tried Windows 7 64-bit and it worked fine. didn't see any > problems with latency you describe Could you send me the system settings (VT-X, PAE, etc.) you used for this? Thanks, http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
Wojciech Puchar wrote: CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU) If that the one normally listed as E3-1220? If so, it's a Sandy Bridge yes. processor. If not, then I have not idea what it is. so it is. it have working AES-NI. I am such a kind of person that i am completely not on-time with marketing, namings, etc.. I just asked what CPUs will support AES-NI which is important for me (geli speedup) and got that in Dell Server ;) Virtualbox works great with windoze on that machine. FreeBSD have linux emulation. i think you should use it instead of VBox if you need to run linux environments under FreeBSD. Yes, it does. And I use it when I can. However, there are applications that it won't run, because of missing kernel features. And of course, it does absolutely not good at all if you need to run something other than Linux. would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means all 64 bit guests). i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install. In windows you have to install "guest additions" without this it is plain terrible. Windows runs great (as for windows of course) under VBox. Not for me. *Every* 64-bit guest OS has sucky performance. Linux, Are you sure with two level pagetables featured in modern CPUs including sandy bridge? Are you only running 32-bit guests? Are you running on 9.x or 8.x? for production - yes (6 instances of windows XP). Virtualbox does never make main workload for me, it is just addon. On FreeBSD 8.3. But i've tried Windows 7 64-bit and it worked fine. didn't see any problems with latency you describe ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 06:11:41AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core > SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. > > Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest > performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests > see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. Try booting the linux VBox with HZ=100. This should greatly improve your performance. > > Googling turns up lots of problems with VBox on SandyBridge: Mac's > running on 64 bit kernels have this problem - running on 32 bit > kernels helps. Turning off Intel's SpeedStep has been reported to > help. Turning off VT-X in the guest - if it's a 32-bit guest - > helps. The last one is the only one that actually helped me. > > I was wondering if anyone here had run into and solved similar > problems? Or if they were running a similar system, and didn't run > into that problem? Especially anyone running 9.0 instead of 8.X! > > > >Thanks, > > -- > Mike Meyerhttp://www.mired.org/ > Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > ___ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- - (2^(N-1)) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:56:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU) If that the one normally listed as E3-1220? If so, it's a Sandy Bridge processor. If not, then I have not idea what it is. > > Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest > > performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests > > see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. > FreeBSD have linux emulation. i think you should use it instead of VBox if > you need to run linux environments under FreeBSD. Yes, it does. And I use it when I can. However, there are applications that it won't run, because of missing kernel features. And of course, it does absolutely not good at all if you need to run something other than Linux. Sucky Linux emulation performance is not my problem. If it were, I would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means all 64 bit guests). > Windows runs great (as for windows of course) under VBox. Not for me. *Every* 64-bit guest OS has sucky performance. Linux, Windows, and others. The only one that reports any problems is Linux - it reports the "CPU Locked" errors. The others just suck. If I cut the memory size down and create 32-bit guests, they all seem to run OK. But I want to run systems for which there aren't 32-bit distributions. Are you only running 32-bit guests? Are you running on 9.x or 8.x? Thanx, http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD 8.3
SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. i am using virtualbox but no linux guest, only windows. the newest CPU i have is CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU) Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. FreeBSD have linux emulation. i think you should use it instead of VBox if you need to run linux environments under FreeBSD. jails are your friend too. Windows runs great (as for windows of course) under VBox. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD 8.3
I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host. Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests see lots of "CPU Locked" errors. Googling turns up lots of problems with VBox on SandyBridge: Mac's running on 64 bit kernels have this problem - running on 32 bit kernels helps. Turning off Intel's SpeedStep has been reported to help. Turning off VT-X in the guest - if it's a 32-bit guest - helps. The last one is the only one that actually helped me. I was wondering if anyone here had run into and solved similar problems? Or if they were running a similar system, and didn't run into that problem? Especially anyone running 9.0 instead of 8.X! Thanks, http://www.mired.org/ Independent Software developer/SCM consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
