Thanks! What about paravirtulized guest support options: 1- paravirtuaization code 2- Paravirtualization layer for spinlocks 3- Lguest guest support
-- Ribhi On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]>wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2011 17:06:36 Ribhi Kamal wrote: > > Assume that VirtualBox is running on a host (Windows/linux) without any > > support for hardware virtualization (think netbooks). > > > > Is there anything I can do from a linux guest to improve performance? In > > other words, does it matter how the guest linux kernel was compiled? If > so, > > what options can I enable/disable/adjust to improve performance? > > Yes. Compile the kernel as non-SMP kernel and switch off as many options > which are responsible for code patching as possible. Enabling SMP support > is one option which uses code patching on recent Linux kernels (to > improve performance on non-SMP systems). Code patching of the guest > kernel always induces additional virtualization overhead. > > Kind regards, > > Frank > -- > Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert > Senior Manager Software Development Desktop Virtualization, VirtualBox > ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Werkstr. 24 | 71384 Weinstadt, Germany > > Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München > Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 > > Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. > Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande > Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 > Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > > -- -- Ribhi
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