Re: Xen PVHVM with FreeBSD10 Guest

2014-01-18 Thread Sydney Meyer
Hello Roger, here are the results. I’ve tested FreeBSD 9.2, 10.0-RC5 in conjunction with XEN PVHVM,XEN-QEMU-DM, KVM-VirtIO and the bare metal performance of the hosts, every run respectively with file IO via raw images and block IO via LVM volumes. Each VM ran with 1GB of memory and 1 VCPU. The

Re: Xen PVHVM with FreeBSD10 Guest

2014-01-17 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 17/01/14 10:17, Sydney Meyer wrote: > I’m doing some benchmarks with bonnie and dd on the Variations > 9.2/10.0;PVHVM/VirtIO;fileio/blockio. I will post the results here to this > thread. By VirtIO I guess you mean emulated IO? That sounds great, I'm eager to see the results :) Roger. __

Re: Xen PVHVM with FreeBSD10 Guest

2014-01-17 Thread Sydney Meyer
I’m doing some benchmarks with bonnie and dd on the Variations 9.2/10.0;PVHVM/VirtIO;fileio/blockio. I will post the results here to this thread. On 17.01.2014, at 10:08, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > On 16/01/14 19:38, Sydney Meyer wrote: >> Well then, thanks for the hint.. dmesg shows the followi

Re: Xen PVHVM with FreeBSD10 Guest

2014-01-17 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 16/01/14 19:38, Sydney Meyer wrote: > Well then, thanks for the hint.. dmesg shows the following: > > Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xn0: at > device/vif/0 on xenbusb_front0 > Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:df:1b:5a > Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xenbusb_back0:

Re: Xen PVHVM with FreeBSD10 Guest

2014-01-16 Thread Sydney Meyer
Well then, thanks for the hint.. dmesg shows the following: Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xn0: at device/vif/0 on xenbusb_front0 Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xn0: Ethernet address: 00:16:3e:df:1b:5a Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xenbusb_back0: on xenstore0 Jan 16 18:22:30 bsd10 kernel: xn0: ba

Re: Xen PVHVM with FreeBSD10 Guest

2014-01-16 Thread Roger Pau Monné
On 16/01/14 17:41, Sydney Meyer wrote: > Hello everyone, > > does someone know how to check if the paravirtualized I/O drivers from Xen > are loaded/working in FreeBSD 10? To my understanding it isn't necessary > anymore to compile a custom kernel with PVHVM enabled, right? In > /var/log/messag