What hypervisor are you using? What management interface?
whats wrong with virtualbox?
>>54914170
Xen, and just the standard CLI utils.
>>54914182
No one uses it in a production environment. However, fucking around with it for personal projects and such is the usual use-case for it.
>>54914182
still can't quite get the oracle stink off it
>>54914182
Resource overhead, it's fine for testing something out but it runs in userspace.
>>54914170
linux with kvm
>>54914252
KVM only runs on Linux. I take that to mean you're using libvirt/virt-manager?
>>54914273
linux together with kvm is a hypervisor
>>54914170
hyper-v so i can run gentoo on windows 2012 r2
>>54914285
KVM is a set of kernel modules in Linux providing hypervisor functionality.
Citrix Xenserver + Xencenter
Vmware Workstation
>>54914298
How are the Hyper-V vnics working with it?
>>54914311
yeah, and by loading them the linux kernel itself becomes a hypervisor
>>54914321
How would you rate the usability of Xenserver?
>>54914332
i gave up and used the slow legacy driver
>>54914353
7/10 - its ok for basic stuff and you still have the xen command line - support and documentation is shit tier tho.
I've used Proxmox, VMWare, Hyper-V, and KVM with LibVirt.
Each has its faults and I've found KVM with LibVirt to be best suited to my use case. I'm still trying to find a proxmox-like interface for it that allows for client-facing vm creation.
>>54914170
ESXi
>>54914439
Have you tried foreman for the KVM / LibVirt front-end? https://theforeman.org/
It does a bit more than VM creation but should work for what you want.
>>54914541
Looks interesting, I'll have to check it out.
I've tried to get rid of Virtualbox but I can'd figure out what causes everything to be dog fucking slow when I use KVM and virt-manager (Linux guest on a Linux host)
Probably just KVM assuming that you aren't going to bother with running a windowing system on the guest
>>54914692
Set IO to "native" and cache to None on your disk. Also use SATA driver, it works better than IDE.
>>54914692
>>54914938
If you've already installed with the IDE setting you'll have to perform a rather annoying driver swap in Windows editing the registry.
>>54914938
is that only for disk-related things though? that wasn't really my problem, reading from disk and networking ran at good speed (file copies ran at 80+MB/s over a gigabit connection, way better than virtualbox), but using a DE was very slow and stuttery. Moving windows, scrolling in them, shit like that took several seconds and pegged the host's CPU.
>>54915013
It has an effect in general as DLLs are loaded when performing various actions. Did you select "copy host CPU configuration"? By default KVM drops to the lowest common denominator (which lacks many features in modern processors).
>>54915081
>DLLs
windows isn't involved, anon, Linux VM on a Linux host. Also I did tell it to use the host CPU configuration
>>54915106
>running a windowing system on the guest
The Native IO is a known issue with Windows.
>>54915190
>>54915106
Wow, I skipped over "ing"
Valid point.
>>54915106
If you do a ps aux do you see any qemu-kvm or just qemu?
>>54915245
I don't have it up and in front of me right now but I do remember setting it to KVM only and not qemu
>>54914170
vSphere of course.
>>54914410
>support and documentation is shit tier
b-b-b-but open source community!
>>54914321
how hard is it to get citrix xenserver/xencenter up and running?
>>54915615
A monkey could do it
>>54914182
>Using a type 2 hypervisor
>>54914170
VirtualBox
>>54914182
Nothing, but then again I only use it to do projects in Visual Studio.
>>54914170
just using virtualbox because lolitjustwerks
>>54915643
good to know, seems like xen is THE cloud provider. how different is xenserver/xencenter from normal xen?
>>54915877
read that as lolit jus twerks
>>54914170
Because I'm not a retard and know what I'm doing, I use vSphere
qemu/kvm/virt-manager and spice
