Attila Nagy wrote: >> Performance will not be very good until you have >> Windows PV disk/net drivers. I'm not sure when we >> will have publicly available Windows PV drivers > > Performance is not _that_ bad, at least I feel so. This Windows boots up > fine, in about 30 seconds. Okay, far from perfect :)), but still, not bad. > Do you have at least an estimate when PV drivers might arrive? (say 2008 Q1, > or maybe in 6 months, or maybe sooner? Just curious.)
Hopefully soon'ish, but I really don't know... >> I would not recommend moving to zfs with only 1G >> of ram to be shared between dom0 and any guests. >> It's really meant for larger systems. > > Yeah, _I_ know that, but the owner wants everything, but gives.... a little > less :) He even speaks about having some 30 instances of mssql on that HVM > Windows... I recommended him to buy a few 8GB ECC modules :)) > >> On a small system like this, you might want to >> start with Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and then >> migrate to zfs when you go to a bigger system. >> zfs gives you a lot more functionality, but SVM >> is small and runs as fast as a native slice/disk >> in dom0. You should be able to dd the disk image >> from a svm volume to a disk file to a zvol and >> move it around at will as long as the size >> matches (I haven't done it myself though). > > Okay, I'll give it a shot. I'd stick to zfs, because of it's simplicity and > features, but it needs more memory, I know. > Somehow I always had hw raid, or zfs (lately). I don't have much experience > with svm, but I dont't think it's _that_ complicated :)) > >> You should also be shutting everything down >> that you can on dom0. e.g. X windows, etc. > > Sure. > Probably I missed something, but how can I get to the HVM's console from, say > an other win, on the same lan? vnc to dom0? I don't think so. vnc to domU? > It isn't trivial to administer Windows from the command line... :) Yep, as of b76 or 77 we include a vnc server which you can use for dom0 if needed. You can vnc into the domUs for their console... If your using a modern version of windows you should enable the rdp stuff and use that. MRJ >> On a side note, I have been playing with a >> script which builds a minimal dom0 which runs >> out of a ramdisk. ramdisk is about 80M compressed >> and takes about ~ 280M of memory for the disk >> when running. Good for booting of a USB stick, >> compact flash, etc. Other than the ramdisk, it >> has a pretty small memory footprint so it almost >> makes up for the ramdisk.. I need to clean it >> up and send it out for folks to play with/improve... > > Ummm... sounds interesting! > Think of me as a volunteer! :) > >> You would have to similar tricks that you do today >> with windows when moving to a bigger disk.. e.g. >> create >> a new larger disk, copy the old disk to the larger >> disk, use partition magic to grow the partition. > > Yes, that was my idea too. Okay. > >> It doesn't hurt having multiple disks... > > Not at all! > >> In the near'ish future, it may even make sense to >> export a zfs filesystem via cifs from the dom0 >> and have the windows domain net mount some of the >> disks depending on you performance requirements. >> You would need PV drivers of course. > > I was actually considering something similar, only with samba :) > > >> See this thread.. >> >> ttp://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=1 >> 66817 >> > > Great thread, thanks! I planned that I let the server compress the win image > in the night hours, and put it in a samba-shared directory, and from there a > win client machine pulls down, and maybe writes to dvd (or directly to > dvd-ram). This way the data leaves the server. > It's almost the same theory as a zfs send/receive! Whoa I invented the wheel! > :)) > >> Thanks, >> >> MRJ >> >> > > Thanks for the great support, and all the work! > > Attila > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
