2009/3/12  <dt...@drizzle.com>:

> I discovered a severe performance problem, wherein an OpenBSD guest would
> run fine for some period of hours, and then become horribly bogged down
> during disk operations, to the point of unusability.  This was true even
> when the guest was nearly idle and the VM host had abundant uncommitted
> resources, and was equally true on 32 bit and 64 bit OpenBSD guests.
>
> This was a showstopper, but the problem appears to have been "resolved" by
> lying to the hypervisor.  Since I told it that the guest was "Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux 64 bit", instead of "Other 64 bit", the problem has so far
> not recurred.

Thanks David,

I came across this problem a few days ago and have yet to get back
looking at it.

So I'm glad for this tip!


Shane

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