Is it possible that the disk I/O was running very slow?
What is the output of 'iostat -x 2' in dom0?

Max

Jens Elkner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just trying to install Win 2003 Server Small Business Edition  on a
> X4600M2 with snv_b98, ZFS root mirror of 2 SAS HDD on a ZFS vol on
> a 2nd ZFS mirror with 2 SAS HDDs and 16 GB RAM (4 x Dual-Core AMD
> Opteron(tm) Processor 8222).
>
> However, it is unbelievable slow - 5 hours now and still on the iso
> image of disk 2/6! To get to know, how long that crap "normally" takes,
> I installed it on a MacbookPro with Core2Duo 2.4 GHz using VirtualBox -
> there the whole setup took ~ 2.5 hour "only".
>
> My setup:
>
> /etc/system:
> set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 0x40000000
>
> /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf:
> ...
> tx_hcksum_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0;
> lso_enable=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0;
>
> + zfs create -V 16G pool1/win2003sbs.dsk
> + virt-install --name=win2003sbs \
>     --ram=3584 --vcpus=2 \
>     --hvm --accelerate --vnc \
>     --bridge=e1000g0 --mac=0:16:3e:5e:fc:fc \
>     --file=/dev/zvol/dsk/pool1/win2003sbs.dsk \
>     --os-type=windows --os-variant=win2k3 \
>     --location=/export/scratch/elkner/isos/w2003sb1.iso
>
> + virsh list
>  Id Name                 State
> ----------------------------------
>   0 Domain-0             running
>   1 win2003sbs           no state
>
>
>    PID USERNAME  SIZE   RSS STATE  PRI NICE      TIME  CPU PROCESS/NLWP
>    781 xvm       922M  911M cpu0    60    0   2:00:35  12% qemu-dm/8
> Total: 59 processes, 218 lwps, load averages: 0.95, 0.95, 0.94
>
>
> Any hints, what might be wrong?
>
> regards,
> jel.
>   
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