-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I have experienced performance issues with VirtualBox 4.x too and downgraded to 3.2.14. Perhaps you could give 3.2.14 a try and see how it works out.
If you get error messages with 3.2.14 I think it is a configuration issue with the USB driver. I resolved it after consulting the VBox forums.Iirc they went away after changing permissions on some system files. On 2012-12-04 02:28, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > So I have an OI151a7 box. Latest vbox is installed with several guests. > Performance of a couple of windows7 VMs seems kind of jerky. I started > playing around with iperf and such to see if network was the issue. Between > guests on the same host and guests <===> host, I can barely crack 1gb (and > in some cases am barely hitting 300mb/sec). I know it's not the HW, since > when I had ESXi on the same host, guests were able to hit 3-5gb/sec > internally. I am wondering if this is just virtualbox issues? Disk I/O > from guests seems fine - I run something like crystaldisk mark from a win7 > guest and can exceed 130MB/sec both ways. But if I launch a browser window, > it can take 4-5 seconds for it to appear, and clicking on links, likewise. > The host is not remotely loaded down (for example, right now, with 4 guests > running, load factor is 0.94). I am trying to get my telecommuter VM and my > wife's (both 32-bit XP) migrated to windows 7, and if it's going to be that > laggy and slow, this will not fly with her (nor with me, for that matter!) > The previous incarnation was ESXi on the host, OI151a7 as a VM with the HBA > passed-in via vmdirectpath (pci passthru). OI VM was on small local SSD > with ESXi. Performance absolutely rocked. This is a major step down. Even > if I go back to the original plan, I'm still using OI as the NAS/SAN, but > I'd rather get off ESXi (if only because there are monitoring functions I > cannot run on the host...) Any thoughts/ideas welcome... > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQvmLYAAoJEHrMcsL/irW8roMH/jYGlUn3sJet+tqWBtzDs3qb flgRqap71ye+o17QpIsIFZc5i5UB2/erCY5DqCpb/d/Vu1gJzUMLuHFVz+AP/sab CHGBmpRjC4Y3YykxA/h/4H7rQGeSJD/GqxA0mXsQee+ZQF7RVZx2I/oBMJKHd1II kYD388MS2VAjBCyQ5oV7dqQDdghttL2KVFFB0E8iLkJBzKsrj0bhkItgdVfbWygt IfWfEUTuOUaF/BH2+RPDEcGW1ZwGtNtfuOcIzzhASGOwLZncjY/jn+Gyo+1zUWfR tNPPms4I7/5bpfsHQ+BAppYzwMNPmOB7Jw1Ypyu7JA59ppB97jGNjsDXDtCCIAs= =pkcg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss