On 06/13/2012 09:14 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 13/06/12 13:46, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> Writing to my disk is normally quite >> fast, but I've noticed indeed that when it's VB that does it, it's slow. >> If I don't find a way, I guess I'll switch back to Xen with NAT... >> > No opinion on VirtualBox, Xen or performance thereof, but kvm is also an > option. I sometimes run virtual machines for development, on a laptop > with ext3 over LVM over dm-crypt (so the complete stack from VM to disk > is: ext3, qcow2, ext3, LVM, dm-crypt, disk) and I've had acceptable > performance. I use virt-manager to simplify dealing with the VMs. > > S >
VirtualBox is only nice because of its GUI. Otherwise, KVM or XEN outperforms it a lot, especially on I/O. Also, VB is convenient because of its bridging thing which works even on WiFi. Unless I'm mistaking, Xen can't do bridging on WiFi (I'd be *very* happy to be wrong here, so if I am, please let me know!), and NAT is always annoying me, which is why I continue with VB for my SID VM. Anyway, thanks for the hint, I may give (another) try with KVM. Is there any good GUI that I could use for it (that would work in Squeeze)? Does it performs a lot faster if I give it a full LVM partition as HDD, or I wont see much difference with qcow2? I mainly know Xen a lot, and (a bit less) KVM on the command line, but it'd be nice to use a GTK/Qt GUI too. Thomas P.S: Sorry for the noise to those who don't care, I quite know it's a bit OT for -devel, but it would really improve my work to have better VM tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fd8ae8b.4000...@debian.org