Oh, I'll try it. Thanks! James
On Dec 12, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Russ Blaine wrote: > 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]
