Plus, I'm feeling adventurous and will experiment with VirtualBox also ;)
Rgds,
On Nov 16, 2011 3:21 AM, <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 02:44:58PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
>
> > However, my Gentoo systems are all virtual servers (DomU VMs on XenServer).
> > So, the hardware devices are static. Will switching over to mdev give any
> > benefits?
> >
> > I even am toying around with the idea of having a completely static /dev,
> > but still can't find any guide/pointers yet.
> >
> > (Apologies if my email is OOT)
>
> The more scenarios we can test, the better. mdev might shave a second
> or two off the VM's bootup time, versus udev.
>Okay, I have two staging VMs on XenServer and one on VMware. I'm going to report back what happens. If anything bad happens, *should* be an easy rollback to the previous snapshot.
Rgds,