[ug-bosug] Nevada and x86 64bit CPU's : a few questions

) but I know it can run on PIII?. But if we do Belenix for 64 bits, we could use the fancier flags and get better performance overall. Does my argument make sense? Manish -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080213/43790dfb/attachment.html>

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> Isnt there another factor involved: the lowest common denominator in > terms of CPU flags and optimizations while "making" a distro for 32 > and 64 bit CPU's ? > > Typically the 64 bit CPU's ( both from the intel and and camp) support > a lot more instruction sets. ( MMX , SSE2, and all that

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Ashwin Bhat wrote: > How does one set the PAE flag in Solaris ? It is turned on by default. Which means the HAT layer will use PAE if available. To forcibly turn it off add the variable ?set force_pae_off=1? to /etc/system and reboot. Do you intend to turn it off due to the problems with 32-bit

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Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > > On Feb 12, 2008 11:44 PM, Ananth Shrinivas > wrote: > > Hi Manish, > > Answers to a few of your questions: > > > I am looking for an Opteron based box with 8GB of RAM ( Saw one good > > configuration for around 25k

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t; data type bloat, address alignment constraints and limited cache lines, > it is not entirely uncommon for 64 bit apps to be slower than their 32 > bit counterparts. > > Cheers, > Ananth > > -- Regards Ashwin Bhat K S -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-bosug/attachments/20080213/ceb9954c/attachment.html>

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[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

It had been just a couple of days back that I downloaded Virtual Box sources to build on OpenSolaris and below piece of news arrives. Sun has bought Virtual Box: http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/sun_grabs_virtualbox Interesting aspects about Virtual Box: 1. It is a native virtualization and f

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

S h i v wrote: > It had been just a couple of days back that I downloaded Virtual Box > sources to build on OpenSolaris and below piece of news arrives. > > Sun has bought Virtual Box: > http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/sun_grabs_virtualbox > > Interesting aspects about Virtual Box: > 1. It is

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

On Feb 13, 2008 12:46 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: >However Virtualbox is a beast apart! It is completely painless to > install and use >with intuitive GUI, high performance and stable, supports an array of > Guest >OSes. We just tried various stuff with Virtualbox running on SXDE host OS >

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

Sriram Narayanan wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 12:46 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >>However Virtualbox is a beast apart! It is completely painless to >> install and use >>with intuitive GUI, high performance and stable, supports an array of >> Guest >>OSes. We just tried various stuff with

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

> We just tried various stuff with Virtualbox running on SXDE host OS without > any issues. I just tried Indiana Preview 2 with Virtualbox and Windows host, and the network didn't work. I might not have the Virtualbox networking configured properly though; it doesn't make as much sense to me a

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

On Feb 13, 2008 2:19 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Sriram Narayanan wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008 12:46 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > > >>However Virtualbox is a beast apart! It is completely painless to > >> install and use > >>with intuitive GUI, high performance and stable, supports an array of

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

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> Aah, that would be nice! > Have not seen the VirtualBox sources. Do they compile Qt statically > into it? Which version of Qt is used by Virtual Box? The pre-built package delivers a dynamically built GCC build Qt 3.3.8 $ ls -ld /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 39

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

Ananth Shrinivas wrote: > >> Aah, that would be nice! >> Have not seen the VirtualBox sources. Do they compile Qt statically >> into it? Which version of Qt is used by Virtual Box? > The pre-built package delivers a dynamically built GCC build Qt 3.3.8 > > $ ls -ld /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

> $ ls -ld /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 39 Feb 13 11:37 > /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so -> > /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 Aah, not Qt4 :( > BTW, I like this thing. Its a 20 MB bundle that does full virtualization > with VT/SVM support and ha

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

Manish Chakravarty wrote: >> $ ls -ld /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 39 Feb 13 11:37 >> /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so -> >> /opt/VirtualBox/qtgcc/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 >> > Aah, not Qt4 :( > >> BTW, I like this thing. Its a 20 MB bundle that does full

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

On Feb 13, 2008 4:06 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >As I mentioned before. Lot faster than Xen. Almost like >running on bare metal! > Hyperbole !? But many people have reported the better performance that it offers as compared to many other virtualization solutions. BTW, comparison with VMwar

[ug-bosug] Virtual Box - next hot virtualization solution (?)

S h i v wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 4:06 PM, Moinak Ghosh wrote: > >>As I mentioned before. Lot faster than Xen. Almost like >>running on bare metal! >> >> > > Hyperbole !? But many people have reported the better performance that > it offers as compared to many other virtualization s

[ug-bosug] [ACM Tech Talk] Title: "The Semantic Web - An Introduction"

ACM Bangalore Chapter would like to invite you to the Monthly Tech Talk. Title: "The Semantic Web - An Introduction" Date: Saturday, February 23, 2008 Time: 10.30am-11.30am Venue: Computer Society of India, Bangalore Chapter, NO.201, IInd Floor, MBC Complex, Infantry Road, Banga