Re: OT: performance (was Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo)

2010-02-02 Thread Aaron Mason
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:01 AM, James Records wrote: > Oh, Qemu performance is horrible, I don't know if there is any work being > done to make kqemu work, but I just use it more as a proof of concept, if > your wanting to run VM's for performance, this is not the route to go, > IMO... > > J > > O

Re: OT: performance (was Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo)

2010-02-02 Thread Bryan
> I don't use kqemu but have had satisfactory performance with Windows XP > running on top of qemu. > > For me default settings have worked very well and I have not tried to > allocate 1GB etc. to a process or done anything fancy. I may have changed > login.conf modestly so that I got higher ulimit

Re: OT: performance (was Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo)

2010-02-02 Thread Vijay Sankar
Bryan wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09, Vijay Sankar wrote: I was running three instances of Windows 2000 Server and one Windows 2003 server on a Dell 2900 -- two IIS servers, and two SQL Servers for testing purposes a while ago. Here is some info on how I was doing it at that time -- Ea

Re: OT: performance (was Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo)

2010-02-02 Thread James Records
Oh, Qemu performance is horrible, I don't know if there is any work being done to make kqemu work, but I just use it more as a proof of concept, if your wanting to run VM's for performance, this is not the route to go, IMO... J On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Bryan wrote: > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010

OT: performance (was Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo)

2010-02-02 Thread Bryan
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:09, Vijay Sankar wrote: > > I was running three instances of Windows 2000 Server and one Windows 2003 > server on a Dell 2900 -- two IIS servers, and two SQL Servers for testing > purposes a while ago. Here is some info on how I was doing it at that time > -- > > Each vm

Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo

2010-02-02 Thread James Records
I have some of this left over from s similar project i was doing a while back, I was setting up router images in a carp setup: This builds the harness: #!/bin/sh # # stupid script to start multiple qemus on a single box SUDO=/usr/bin/sudo USER=xx MODE=ENABLE usage() { echo "usage:

Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo

2010-02-02 Thread Vijay Sankar
Matthias Pfeifer wrote: On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:10:24 +0100 Matthias Pfeifer wrote: Hello On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:35:28 -0600 Vijay Sankar wrote: Matthias Pfeifer wrote: Hello list I am trying to get multiple qemu guests on host machine running. Host and guests are running openbsd 4.6 in sy

Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo

2010-02-02 Thread Todd T. Fries
You need a tun(4) device per qemu '-net tap' argument, sometimes multiple per qemu instance, sometimes none per qemu instance.. Thanks, Penned by Rogier Krieger on 20100202 16:51.31, we have: | On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 15:27, Matthias Pfeifer wrote: | > [...] Then the second: | | > this gives m

Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo

2010-02-02 Thread Rogier Krieger
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 15:27, Matthias Pfeifer wrote: > [...] Then the second: > this gives me a " cannot create /dev/tun0: Device busy " If I'm not mistaken, you need separate tun(4) devices per qemu instance. The reason for that lies in the device being ready for simultaneous use only by a s

Re: multiple qemu hosts, typo

2010-02-02 Thread Matthias Pfeifer
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010 15:10:24 +0100 Matthias Pfeifer wrote: > Hello > > On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:35:28 -0600 > Vijay Sankar wrote: > > > Matthias Pfeifer wrote: > > > Hello list > > > > > > I am trying to get multiple qemu guests on > > > host machine running. Host and guests are running > > > openb