On 6/14/2011 12:50 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
Are there estimates on how performant and stable would
it be to run VirtualBox with a Solaris-derived NAS with
dedicated hardware disks, and use that from the same
desktop? I did actually suggest this as a considered
variant as well ;)
I am going to try and build such a VirtualBox for my ailing
HomeNAS as well - so it would import that iSCSI "dcpool"
and try to process its defer-free blocks. At least if the
hardware box doesn't stall so that a human has to be
around to go and push reset, this would be a more
viable solution for my repair-reboot cycles...
If you want good performance and ZFS, I'd suggest using something like
OpenIndiana or Solaris 11EX or perhaps FreeBSD for the host and VirtualBox for
a linux guest if that's needed. Doing so, you'll get good I/O performance, and
you can use the operating system or distro you like for the rest of the
services.
Vennlige hilsener / Best regards
roy
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The other option is to make sure you have a newer CPU that supports
Virtualized I/O. I'd have to look at the desktop CPUs, but all Intel
Nehalem and later CPUs have this feature, and I'm pretty sure all AMD
MangyCours and later CPUs do also.
Without V-IO, doing anything that pounds on a disk under *any*
Virtualization product is sure to make you cry.
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