To clarify: this was all kinda subjective. To wit: remote desktop to a windows guest. Move the mouse around, click on start menu and/or program icons, do various activities. Under vbox/vdi, this was laggy and 'jumpy'. I tried the zvol trick and it was better but still not great (and has the disadvantage of my needing to hack around on the command line to create new guests and make sure the zvols are chowned properly on reboot, etc...) I know it's not perfect, but I also tried running crystaldiskmark and got about 140MB/sec read with vbox/vdi and about 200MB/sec vbox/zvol. The main thing was: I can guarantee that if the lag/jumpiness doesn't go away, this will be a non-starter with my wife (I wasn't real happy either, to be honest...) I shutdown the host and pulled one of the mirrored disks in case I changed my mind. I reinstalled ESXi on the SSD and did a fresh win7 install on the exact same data pool (only now, OI 151a7 is now the virtualized SAN/NAS like originally with HBA passed in via vt-d). Did same subjective experiments and everything runs as smoothly as I remembered. I like hacking around on the command line as much as the next guy, but there has to be a payoff for it, and the various experiments I have tried (kvm on debian [aka proxmox], vbox on OI/vdi, vbox on OI/zvol) just haven't met that criterion. OTOH, I have nothing but praise for OI when it's acting as a storage back-end...
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