oi, napp-it, esxi, vt-d, compatible hba in it mode, passthrough, cifs shares, nfs shares, store vms on vdevs, all in one ftw
Sent from my iPhone On Apr 27, 2012, at 8:11 AM, Ron Parker <rdpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi list, > > I'm running oi_151a3 with VirtualBox 4.1.12 and a number of VM's. My > VM's include several Linux's of various vintages including an in-house > "embedded" distribution and Windows 7. > > It would be convenient to be able to share GB of data between my host > and the various VM's instead of copying all of that around between the > host and VM's. However the performance of NFS mounting something from > the host into the VM's is painful. Compiles that should take a couple > minutes take over 30 just to ./configure. I am painfully aware of the > contention and performance issues related to OpenIndiana, VirtualBox > and NFS but have no idea how to resolve them. > > Something in me screams there has to be a better way. My VM's have two > NIC's configured. One is NAT to reach the local network. I can't > bridge them. The other is host-only to communicate with the host and > occasionally with other VM's. > > What is the best way to share data between an OI host and > Linux/Windows VirtualBox VM's? > > Thanks, > > Ron > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss