Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
You do know that OpenSolaris + VirtualBox can trash your ZFS raid? You can loose your data. There is a post about write cache and ZFS and VirtualbBox, I think you need to disable it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
This actually turned out be a lot of fun! The end of it is that I have a hard disk partition now which can boot in both physical and virtual world (got rid of the VDIs finally!). The physical world has outstanding performance but has ugly graphics (1600x1200 vesa driver with weird DPI and fonts...ughhh) because ATI drivers don't work in Opensolaris for my card. Virtualbox gives me better graphics than my real install. This is a bit of a painful pill to swallow! One thing I tested right away in the physical install was to see how portage performance was compared to Linux. This is a sort of test of the scheduler as well as small file performance of the FS. OpenSolaris emerged python-2.6.5 in 45 seconds compared to 55 seconds in Linux, cmake took 38 seconds vs 53 seconds in Linux. In general, a portage operation (like emerge -pv pkg) completes much much faster in OpenSolaris. Its not to say OpenSolaris doesn't have issues. I notice short freezes (keyboard/mouse and gkrellm updates) lasting few seconds (sometimes more) during FS activity. Firefox restart (like after an add-on install) takes forever whereas it should be instant because all of it is in memory already. I would like to troubleshoot these sometime using DTrace. Lastly, OpenSolaris is memory hungry! It crawls without it. In the VM, I have it using 1.5GB and pkg manager alone can eat more than half of it, throwing everything else into swap. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
I think I messed up just a notch! When I did zfs send|recv, I used the flag -u (because I wanted it to not mount at that time). But it set the fs property canmount to off for ROOT...YAY! I booted into livecd, imported the mypool and fixed the mount points and canmount property. And I am now in the physical opensolaris install. No X so far though...:( Any hints on ATI drivers? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
I am getting a strange reset as soon as I say startx from normal user's console login. How do I troubleshoot this? Any ideas? I removed the /etc/X11/xorg.conf before invoking startx because that would have some PCI bus ids in there which won't be valid in real hardware. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
Looks like the X's vesa driver can only use 1600x1200 resolution and not the native 1920x1200. And if I passed -dpi to enforce 96 DPI, it just croaks. Once -dpi was out, I am inside X with 1600x1200 resolution. Can anyone tell me how I can get the native 1920x1200 resolution working with vesa driver? I know its possible because I get 1920x1200 resolution inside my Milax liveUSB. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
On 05/ 1/10 03:09 PM, devsk wrote: Looks like the X's vesa driver can only use 1600x1200 resolution and not the native 1920x1200. Asking these question on the ZFS list isn't going to get you very far. Troy the opensolaris-help list. -- Ian. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Virtual to physical migration
I have no idea why I posted in zfs discuss...ok, migration...I will post follow up in help. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
