Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:21 PM, Juan M. Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested Ron, Any change to thnx to get it working with new lguest? have not tested with full up thnx yet. I am going to pull down a release 2.6.25 and make sure it still works with that.

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread ron minnich
oh yes, to install lguest, you MUST: modprobe lg syscall_vector=64 This sets the right syscall vector. ron

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
Disk IO is not great, net IO seems pretty good. I don't have a stable timebase on lguest, evidently, or I would run netpipe to test. just put it up on a tee: why not use aoe? - erik

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread ron minnich
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:22 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just put it up on a tee: why not use aoe? I had not even thought of that. How do you recommend setting it up? ron

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
just put it up on a tee: why not use aoe? I had not even thought of that. How do you recommend setting it up? ron i probablly don't know enough about your setup to answer that well. but here;s an idea nonetheless. for a single-machine linux-hosted setup, you could run linux vblade

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:29 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just put it up on a tee: why not use aoe? The problems of disk I/O are largely a focus issue -- all this stuff is pretty new and they focused on the network mechanisms first because those were the ones where

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread erik quanstrom
You on the wrong portion of the problem -- the disk solution they have is effectively AOV (ATA over Virtio), you aren't going to do better by putting a virtual network driver in between. They just have to tune their userspace gateway for disk access -- they put a lot of work into making the

Re: [9fans] new lguest port available

2008-04-23 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 7:53 PM, erik quanstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what i'm saying is boils down to 10ms + 100ns is essentially 10ms. so it's slower, but at a level a couple (or three) orders of magnitude too low to be very significant. ah, but its not always 10ms because of the