Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Laurent Vivier
Benjamin Budts wrote: > > Hi Laurent, > > Intresting stuff, could you send me your patch and the benchmarks please ? > I think I might try it out. patch: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/15969 benchmarks: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.kvm.devel/3373 > t

Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Laurent Vivier
Benjamin Budts wrote: [snip] > 1* When i run hdparm -t /dev/sda1 I have 80-85Mbit/s read speed on my > guest os (debian etch) > > If I run it ''in'' a virtual machine (using also debian Etch with > 2.6.21.5 kernel) I get : 28-35Mbits... > > I even tried to put the image on a seperate disk to be

Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Dor Laor
>1* When i run hdparm -t /dev/sda1 I have 80-85Mbit/s read speed on my >guest os (debian etch) > >If I run it ''in'' a virtual machine (using also debian Etch with >2.6.21.5 kernel) I get : 28-35Mbits... > >I even tried to put the image on a seperate disk to be able to have >more, but I can't get m

Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Laurent Vivier
Benjamin Budts wrote: > Gregory Haskins wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:43 +0200, Benjamin Budts wrote: >> >>> 3* When I specify a mac address for my debian virtual machine eth0 >>> changes to eth3 ... very very weird... it's not that bad, i just changed >>> my interfaces config file from e

Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 13:21 +0200, Benjamin Budts wrote: > Any clues about the HD performance, do you notice the same behaviour ? I haven't run any benchmarks myself, but it is to be expected that IO will be slower in a VM. :( There are efforts underway to improve this, however. For instance, a

Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Benjamin Budts
Gregory Haskins wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:43 +0200, Benjamin Budts wrote: > >> 3* When I specify a mac address for my debian virtual machine eth0 >> changes to eth3 ... very very weird... it's not that bad, i just changed >> my interfaces config file from eth0 to eth3, but it's a bit w

Re: [kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Gregory Haskins
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 11:43 +0200, Benjamin Budts wrote: > 3* When I specify a mac address for my debian virtual machine eth0 > changes to eth3 ... very very weird... it's not that bad, i just changed > my interfaces config file from eth0 to eth3, but it's a bit weird Many linux distros support

[kvm-devel] Couple of quetsions HD perf, mac address...

2007-07-03 Thread Benjamin Budts
Hi there, Sorry to bother the developpers list, I have couple of questions... I've been testing kvm for couple of months with the following hardware : S5000pal intel board 1x Duo Core Xeon 2.4 2048Gb DDR2 667 Ram Western digital SATA 150 10K rpm disk. I run kvm21 at the moment...(I need to upgr