On Aug 4, 2013 5:48 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 02/08/2013 23:08, Kerin Millar wrote: > > Regarding VirtualBox, it does support a virtio-net type ethernet adapter > > so you would certainly benefit from enabling CONFIG_VIRTIO_NET in a guest. > > > > I'm not entirely certain as to where VirtualBox stands with regard to > > PVOPS support [1] but it would probably also help to enable > > CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST (even though there are no directly applicable > > sub-options). > > > How well or otherwise does it perform? > > I have a bunch of minimal VMs in a dev environment using Intel Pro1000, > and have considered changing to virtio. But it's a lot of work to do[1] > so someone else's opinion first would be nice. > > [1] They are Gentoo VMs but don't have sources installed and can't > compile a kernel with the mere 256G RAM I give them. So the entire > kernel+modules has to be built somewhere else and scp'ed to the VM. > hence "lot of work" > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >
Good Lord! Your VM has 256 GB of RAM?? That's even larger than some virtualization hosts we have in the company... Rgds, --
