Re: Virtualbox and CPU counting

2015-02-02 Thread Peter Ross
P.S. More precisly, I expected VirtualBOx to see 8 or 32 CPUs. In the past it was virtual CPU= real thread number, if I remember correctly. How many you give to a VM is a different matter. Regards Peter On Mon, 2 Feb 2015, Peter Ross wrote: Hi, I have a question: I have a server

Re: Can a host OS user process create a zillion BHyVe VM:s and microcontrol them?

2014-12-07 Thread Peter Ross
On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, Tinker wrote: Looking at Capsicum, I think it has an even lower safety profile than NaCl - my usecase might just run any beastly binary code, so the sandbox wall needs to be the toughest you got, so using BHyVe here makes sense. You could use jails.. - The kernel is

Re: RFC: Enabling VIMAGE in GENERIC

2014-11-18 Thread Peter Ross
On Sun, 16 Nov 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote: (4) Not everyone uses bhyve. FreeBSD jails are an excellent virtualization platform for FreeBSD. Jails are still very popular and performant. VIMAGE makes jails even better by allowing per-jail network stacks. I am using

VirtualBox performance

2014-11-13 Thread Peter Ross
Hi all, I am running VirtualBox on a new server (a Dell T620). Inside is Oracle Linux. I run a Java app and it is very slow to start. Memory should not be an issue. I have 32 GB and 8 GB for the VM. The server has 2 Xeon CPUs with 4 core each (hypertthreated so VBox sees 16 CPUs). I do

Re: VIMAGE and VirtualBox networking question

2014-11-10 Thread Peter Ross
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On 11/05/14 00:29, Manas Bhatnagar wrote: Install ports tree in a temporary location (another computer or something), grab the required folder and move it to the computer that you want to install the port on and do 'make install clean' ? probably won't work like

Re: VirtualBox X11: Guest console does not display remotey anynmore

2014-11-10 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Peter Ross wrote: since yesterday I have a weird problem. I cannot display VirtualBox _guest_ consoles remotely anymore (the GUI for configuration works). It worked two weeks ago and I am not aware of any changes. I am running Virtualbox headless on a server but use