Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> writes: > Harry, > > On Tuesday 18 October 2011 03:26:32 Harry Putnam wrote: >> Setup: >> >> Running Debian linux (wheezy) 3.0.0-1-686-pae >> On an older intel P4 3.06 ghz cpu and 2 GB ram >> >> I gave the virtual machine 900MB ram. >> I've installed guest os (Solaris [openindiana]) >> I thought I noticed the machine being sluggish during install, but now >> on first boot following install I see VB pegged at 95 % for minutes on end. > > your conclusion is a bit surprising to me. You try to run Solaris,
Just ill informed. Based on observation. I've run solaris in vms several times in the past but thinking back, the host had a lot more ram and consequently I allowed the guest to have over 3GB. > which is known to be an operating system more targeted to servers > than to desktops with a limited amount of guest RAM (you should never > try to install Solaris on a machine / in a VM with less than 1GB RAM) > on an older desktop machine with a processor which is known to be > suboptimal for virtualization (Pentium 4, no hardware virtualization, > very long instruction pipeline, single core) on a host with only 2GB > RAM. Sorry, but please don't expect a great performance on such hardware. > > For Solaris in a VM we suggest VT-x / AMD-V with nested paging (this > feature has a different name with Intel and AMD) and at least 4GB > host RAM and at least a dual core. Trond Husø <[email protected]> writes: >> For Solaris in a VM we suggest VT-x / AMD-V with nested paging (this >> feature has a different name with Intel and AMD) and at least 4GB >> host RAM and at least a dual core. >> > Dear Frank, > > Could we/you/someone create a list of such best-practices setups? I > think it would be a great resource for anyone. That would be a very welcome addition. Many really informative posts have passed thru this list with great detail and well informed information. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
