From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QRdpO-0007d7-Mx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 05:18:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 285A21C03D; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 05:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7781C03D for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 05:16:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so5196321wyi.40 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:16:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent :references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=OPZiH3p0QslQSiNPIE80Uc/CLW4PdsNKN57OFnOOzI8=; b=lNcGCPrHxnaNZ36sPwsAQMyvQxS/xXXjzj/kuFp4GqqWvuDEh9otnYdozuvwDJy6dB Uhf2yqTUrEN5qCkBRq1YTDlSpetq+aLJeH8aoTowSX/e6d2gK5i53+8h5U7Xs7ZtYX7P M67VzShty2EzHa1XVN2D6NyDRhjIoo+YQJSH0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZGTZ4r7Gh/fq4RQIdgR01OGtnt5IuZNkmadeU8zsPfiwP78FdqXbLbtDqemR4oZ22/ 0aPYY+6rPgAbrxZIOKeoDvMWPrWrf7yy55EAQQoIEZms8n3RAatUuWFJpph6CUA2tDjI rof1ant0NIbnbia277z5d62D6Kykrv9pEy6d8= Received: by 10.216.221.72 with SMTP id q50mr6433957wep.99.1306905401478; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:16:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k10sm397671wed.28.2011.05.31.22.16.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 May 2011 22:16:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox + kernel panic 2.6.38-r2 Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 06:17:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.38-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.6.2; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DE53D70.9040000@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2845072.omllvl3aBa"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106010617.11273.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: e13e3167d4fe8b39551ca3846b42f25f --nextPart2845072.omllvl3aBa Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tuesday 31 May 2011 20:55:08 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Tanstaafl =20 wrote: > > On 2011-05-31 1:31 PM, James wrote: > >> The only thing I've read online that may be applicable is that there > >> have been some issues with kernel panics when you give the guest OS > >> more than 1 processor. It would suck badly if SMP didn't work well on > >> vbox. > >=20 > > My understanding is it is a general rule that you never give any VM more > > than one processor, regardless of which vm hypervisor you are running... >=20 > My platform is a Gentoo i7-980 Extreme processor so I have 12 CPUs (6 > cores * 2 for hyperthreading) >=20 > In Virtualbox I'm running both Gentoo and Win 7 VMs, each allocated 4 > processors. In Win 7 I have one app that uses everything it can find > so when it's running all 4 processors are 100% utilized. In Linux I > see the CPU usage at 33%. Win 7 is sluggish when this app is running > as it hogs from the system >=20 > In VMWare Player I'm running Win XP VMs with 2 processors. None of my > apps in XP use more than 1 processor. XP itself is quite responsive > even when these apps are using 1 of the 2 processors dedicated the the > VM. >=20 > I seldom run more than 1 app in any Windows VM as I don't trust > Windows. I've not had any problems with any of these VMs that I'd > associate with using multiple cores. >=20 > And yes, I do own these Windows licenses. VMs keep that money useful > until some day some Linux apps come along that do what these do for me > in Windows. A bit OT I guess, but what apps are you using that do not have a Linux=20 alternative Mark? Answer off list if you wish so we do not hijack the thre= ad. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2845072.omllvl3aBa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3ly1cACgkQVTDTR3kpaLY3NACgvODciLPcNCvVOpaycSaAAYOt yoYAoMi+OW9A2faDMZWkqDEpDeO5kpD3 =Xniz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2845072.omllvl3aBa--