Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Yesterday Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 3:01 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > > > > > No matter, only 64-bit is available. I'll download and try to > > create the VM.

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Gregory Nowak
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 05:31:56PM -0500, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > No-go, I couldn't create the VM due to my Host O/S being 32-bit. > Sorry man. I definitely stand to be corrected, but from the bit I think I know, you should be able to run a 64-bit gues

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 3:01 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > > No matter, only 64-bit is available. I'll download and try to > create the VM. :) Hi Tobi, No-go, I couldn't create the VM

Re: [vbox-users] How to enable sound on ubuntu machine

2010-01-06 Thread n179911
Can someone please help me with my audio problem in my Ubuntu 9.10 machine? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:21 PM, n179911 wrote: > I have installed linux guest addition by doing this: > > open an ubuntu terminal and > > $ cd /media/cdrom0 > $  sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run > [sudo] password for sc

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 2:52 pm, Pablo Sanchez penned about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 2:44 pm, Tobias Oetiker penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox pe

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 2:44 pm, Tobias Oetiker penned about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > Hi Pablo, Hi Tobi, > cool ... please make sure to use the 64bit version ... this might > affect the system ... Hmmm, I'm runn

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Pablo, Today Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:34 am, Tobias Oetiker penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > > > [ snipped ] > > Hi Tobi, > > I see I can download Windows 2008 on a trial basi

[vbox-users] Problem while importing a VM

2010-01-06 Thread Narmi Niassuh
Hi, I exported a VM created from a host running on Windows XP. When I try to import this VM on a host running Vista, I get the following error. Cannot unregister the machine 'My machine name' because it has 2 medium attachments. I can successfully import the same VM on my original XP machine

[vbox-users] Backup tips

2010-01-06 Thread Michael Da Cova
Hi all Anyone have any tips on backing up Virtualbox clients My techlab is Two Ubuntu 9.10 64bit servers, various windows clients All the VDI's are on a Cifs (samba) server I have Bacula based backup server One of the issues is I would like to backup the clients when they up and running

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:34 am, Tobias Oetiker penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > >> [ snipped ] > > Hi Tobi, > > I see I can download Windows 2008 o

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:34 am, Tobias Oetiker penned about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > [ snipped ] Hi Tobi, I see I can download Windows 2008 on a trial basis (180 days). I'll sign up and download it and prepare

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:34 am, Tobias Oetiker penned about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > Hi Pablo, Hi Tobi, > the disk is a raid6 system with ext3 ... its performance is not the > issue for our application ... 'k

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Pablo, Today Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:13 am, Tobias Oetiker penned > about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > > > Hi Pablo, > > Hi Tobi, > > > > Let me know if you'd like additional informatio

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 11:13 am, Tobias Oetiker penned about "Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > Hi Pablo, Hi Tobi, > > Let me know if you'd like additional information. > > I asume your system is running without 'slowdow

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Pablo, Today Pablo Sanchez wrote: > [ Comments below, in line ] > > On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 5:33 am, Tobias Oetiker penned > about "[vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > > > I got me an evaluation copy of > > > >PassMark (http://www.passmark.com/product

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 06 January 2010 at 5:33 am, Tobias Oetiker penned about "[vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking" > I got me an evaluation copy of > >PassMark (http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm) > > and ran it on virtualbox 3.0.12 (2 co

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread István
> > >> >> have you tried the benchmark ? >> > i have tried my own benchmarks only, what have you executed exactly? > found it, checkin' it > > >> >> cheers >> tobi >> >> >> Today István wrote: >> >> > hi, >> > >> > kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 10:46:22 EST >> 2009 >> >

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread István
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Tobias Oetiker wrote: > Hi István, > > how have you configured your virtual machine ? > http://pastie.org/768837 > how ist your host kernel configured ? > stock fedora > > have you tried the benchmark ? > i have tried my own benchmarks only, what have you execu

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi István, how have you configured your virtual machine ? how ist your host kernel configured ? have you tried the benchmark ? cheers tobi Today István wrote: > hi, > > kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 10:46:22 EST 2009 > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > userland: Fedo

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread István
hi, kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-166.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Dec 9 10:46:22 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux userland: Fedora release 12 (Constantine) virtualbox: VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_fedora12-1.x86_64 hw:http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x2100/specs.xml 1 CPU, 2 core, 8G ram, 2x1T mirror w

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Istvan, Today István wrote: > interesting > > i have 2 win2k8 virts on 3.1.2(64) and the performance(measured by sql > queries) is around the third of the native(non-virt) generally, i am > wondering if this is acceptable > > i could rerun your tests if you wish because it is a test system at

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread István
interesting i have 2 win2k8 virts on 3.1.2(64) and the performance(measured by sql queries) is around the third of the native(non-virt) generally, i am wondering if this is acceptable i could rerun your tests if you wish because it is a test system at the moment regards, Istvan On Wed, Ja

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Hi Alexey, Today Alexey Eremenko wrote: > Does it happen with UP (1 vCPU) guest too ? yes ... although I have not tested this with 3.0.12 (only with 3.1.2) ... unfortunately this is a production system so the testing possibilities are rather limited and the tension is rather high ... since the

Re: [vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Alexey Eremenko
Does it happen with UP (1 vCPU) guest too ? -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" ___ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users

[vbox-users] vbox performance issues verified with benchmarking

2010-01-06 Thread Tobias Oetiker
Experts, We have been fighting with windows 2k8 64bit guest performance on virtual box linux host for about a week now. The behaviour we see is that the guest system slows down dramatically after running for a few hours. We tried kernel upgrades on the host (up to 2.6.32.2 with 250 Hz and preempt