# [OmniOS-discuss] virtualbox installed on omnios latest stable

Geoff Nordli geoffn at gnaa.net
Tue May 28 15:01:05 EDT 2013

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    On 13-05-28 11:45 AM, Jared Morrow wrote:
    >
    >     What are you using to auto manage the startup/shutdown of KVM
    >     instances.  I use
    >     http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/ with vbox.
    >
    >
    > In SmartOS I use their vmadm tool, and on OmniOS I just started it up
    > by hand and haven't shut it down since.  There is a project that came
    > up on this list to replicate vmadm on OmniOS, but the name escapes me
    > right now.
    >
    > Regarding high performance, I do some testing of Riak (our distributed
    > data store) on SmartOS->KVM->Linux and as long as I use the virtio
    > driver I get pretty decent performance.  For reference, FreeBSD and
    > Centos5 need a little bit of work to get virtio to work, but it isn't
    > that hard.
    >

    That sounds encouraging.  Can you ballpark the performance numbers you
    are seeing ?

    thanks,

    Geoff

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