`<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">What are you using to auto manage the startup/shutdown of KVM instances. I use </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(32,74,135)"></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> with vbox. </span></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div style>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.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>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. </div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Jared</div><div style><br></div><div style> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Geoff Nordli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffn@gnaa.net" target="_blank">geoffn@gnaa.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 13-05-28 09:57 AM, Jared Morrow
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<blockquote type="cite">Have you considered using kvm instead of vbox? Joyent
ported kvm to illumos and use it for their hosting so I'm willing
to be it has been tested far more than vbox on illumos. I
personally use kvm on both SmartOS and OmniOS.
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<div>-Jared</div>
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Hi Jared.<br>
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I have been using vbox on OpenIndiana and it has been working pretty
well. <br>
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What are you using to auto manage the startup/shutdown of KVM
instances. I use <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#204a87"></span>
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<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/vboxsvc/</a> with vbox. <br>
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Out of curiosity, are you using any Linux VMs in KVM that has high
disk IO/network throughput? All my vbox instances are low usage,
but I have been thinking about virtualizing a GlusterFS, because
there is no good DFS option on illumos today. <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<br>
Geoff <br>
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