Hi James, For your mouse issues, have you tried setting the mouse to USB tablet mode? Add the following to your domain config, and restart it:
usb=1 usbdevice='tablet' That will fix your mouse tracking problem under VNC. James Cornell wrote: > Paul Lange wrote: >>> Performance will not be very good until you have Windows PV disk/net >>> drivers. >>> >> Just how bad is "not very good" here? >> >> >>> 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. >>> >> How large? >> >> I'm thinking of slicing up a X4150 into Solaris zones & XP xVMs to service >> about a half dozen sysadmins & Java developers with Sun Ray clients. The >> idea is that they use the Solaris side for primary tool support with some >> software running in the XP xVM(s) and accessed via RDP. >> >> Also, some server support software is expected to run on the Solaris zones >> to support the sysadmins and developers. VCS, bug tracker, maybe a couple >> others with relatively small footprint. And I had in mind to do this all >> elegantly with ZFS backing for the obvious reasons. >> >> Would the performance of the XP xVM(s) not stand up to this kind of use? Am >> I trying to do too much with one box? >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> xen-discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> > > This is just based on experience, but the performance is terrible, even > on a Ultra-20 M2 with 2.6GHz AMD Opteron 1218, 2GB ram, allocated 1GB to > the guest. The major issue is mouse synchronization, the performance is > comparable to Qemu running fully emulated. It's somewhat usable, enough > to install the system and a few programs, but hardly usable for > development or testing. Until drivers that fix the networking and disk > support are out, it's just how it is. Right now it's nothing comparable > to native or VMware. > > RDP is the preferred access method, for performance reasons, VNC just > doesn't cut it, and the console is not usable for anything but > installing. For your proposed setup, I'd recommend hosting something > like Windows Server 2003 with 2GB ram on xVM and use terminal services, > depending on what you host, may need more. Multiple VM's will be VERY > painful, if you can help it, don't do it! The one issue to watch out > for is disk i/o with 6 users, if you have a dedicated disk it'll help a > lot. You're not necessarily trying to do too much with one machine, > it's just a problem right now, things will get better quickly, but I > can't give you an eta because I don't work directly with the xVM team. > If you need hardware recommendations and can afford it, a dual socket > Opteron system such as the Ultra 40 would be the preferred host. If you > can help it, running multiple VM's per core is not ideal, and it won't > be usable if you do so. One VM per socket is the only way to do it > without pain. > > PS: Sorry that I didn't CC xen-discuss at the first e-mail, I made a typo :-o > > James > > _______________________________________________ > xen-discuss mailing list > [email protected] -- ----------------------------------------------------- Russ Blaine | Solaris Kernel | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
