Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-24 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On 8/20/2012 6:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: [snip] I haven't done any benchmarks, but subjectively speaking Xen seems much, much faster than VirtualBox. Much cleaner too -- once the hypervisor starts, there're no user-level processes hanging around for vistualisation assistance. Each

[ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and arduous, and is still not complete, but some of my experiences on the way are documented in:

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 08/20/2012 01:37 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and arduous, and is still not complete, but some of my experiences

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Aug 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 08/20/2012 01:37 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Treated myself to some new hardware as advance Eid/Diwali/Christmas/New Year gift, and was trying to install Xen and get virtual machines running on that. The path was long and

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Vikas Rawal
Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image Very well explained. Thanks. I was wondering if you would recommend a desktop user of

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Aug 2012, Vikas Rawal wrote: Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image Very well explained. Thanks. I was