On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Hardy Ferentschik <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I hate to break your heart, but just don't use xhyve. > I know it is the "native" hypervisor on OS X, but imo is just not ready > for prime time. > > Well the cool kids like James Strachan and Kamesh Sampath are telling me that xhyve is super awesome and I would be better looking, thinner and 10 years younger if I just tried it :-) > If you want to have a stable environment use VirtualBox. I use VirtualBox > for development and hardly xhyve. xhyve has a tendency to hang and it as > you noticed > yourself handles hibernation really badly. Also, when you get into a bad > state, > xhyve can literally force you to restart your notebook. Btw, have I > mentioned the > "issues" around the fact that the xhyve driver needs to run as root, hence > creating > files I cannot easily delete afterwards? > I do not even know what files to go delete...but I do see it misbehaving. > > I have an Minishift instance running pretty much all the time and > hibernate my > machine as often as I like with hardly having any trouble. > > What is so appealing with xhyve? Is it such a hassle to install and use > VirtualBox? > > > CDK 2.1 could also handle the laptop sleep cycle pretty well (at least 4+ > > sleep/wake cycles) but I do not believe CDK 2.3 could as one sleep/wake > > cycle could cause it to "eat all the CPU". > > Both cases used to work for me afaicr. > CDK 2.2+ uses more CPU than before - I stuck with CDK 2.1 until Jan 2017 for demos :-) Now my demo volume (longer time spans between demos) is low enough that I can afford to reset the demo on CDK 2.3+ for each presentation. > > > In my case, I always use the CDK 2.x with Virtual Box > > and the Minishift CDK with Xyhve > > Why are you not using VirtualBox for Minishift as well? > Just because :-) > > BTW, regarding the MSA example. Provisioned it just yesterday on latest > Minishift version > and it worked ok. > It works...it is slower than it used to be and even with VirtualBox, it does not survive as many sleep/wake cycles as it used to (CDK 2.1 days). > > --Hardy > >
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