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%%warning A new report on [VirtualBox-4.1] is also available %%
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''mount -t vboxsf SharedFolderDefault /tmp/ff'' .
''mount -t vboxsf SharedFolderDefault /tmp/ff'' .\\
I could not get this to work, I keep getting
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''vb guestproperty set ubuntu910_minimal GUESTNAME ubuntu910_minimal''
''vb guestproperty set ubuntu910 GUESTNAME ubuntu910 --flags RDONLYGUEST''
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! Preparing original mother system
! Preparing mother system (DSL)
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* __TODO__ to use this name in the guest, you first have to install the guest additions, see Chapter 4.3.1 ''Installing the Linux Guest Additions''
* to use this name in the guest, you first have to install the guest additions, see Chapter 4.3.1 ''Installing the Linux Guest Additions''
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! Preparing mother system (Ubuntu)
The same thing was done with a rather minimal Ubuntu910 server.\\
To summarize :
* 1.5 GB filesystem
* set the hostname inside the guest to guestproperty GUESTNAME by adding the following to /etc/rc.local:
{{{
# set the hostname to the value that is set by the hypervisor
HostName=`VBoxControl guestproperty get GUESTNAME | grep Value | cut -d' ' -f2`
hostname $HostName
echo $HostName > /etc/hostname
logger "$0 : hostname set to $HostName"
}}}
* store my id_rsa.pub file in ~/.ssh
* visudo so that I can easily su without prompting
* removing /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (or you get eth1 in use instead of eth0 on the cloned guest)
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! CPU Usage
Or the new script for Ubuntu:
%%prettify
{{{
#!/bin/sh
#
# script to generate VBoxManage VMs
#
NUMVMS=$1
for N in `seq 1 $NUMVMS`
do
echo "Creating VM $N"
VBoxManage clonehd HardDisks/ubuntu910disk.vdi HardDisks/ubm${N}disk.vdi --remember
VBoxManage createvm --name ubm$N --register --ostype Ubuntu
VRDPPORT=`expr 10000 + $N`
VBoxManage modifyvm ubm$N --biosbootmenu disabled --memory 64 --vram 6 --boot1 disk --hda HardDisks/ubm${N}disk.vdi --nic1 bridged --bridgeadapter1 wlan0 --vrdp on --vrdpport $VRDPPORT
VBoxManage guestproperty set ubm$N GUESTNAME ubm$N --flags RDONLYGUEST
done
echo ""
echo "VirtualBox's known VMs :"
echo " -------------------------------------------------------------"
VBoxManage list vms
#echo ""
#echo ""
#echo "VirtualBox's known HDDs :"
#echo " -------------------------------------------------------------"
#VBoxManage list hdds
}}}
%%
!! CPU Usage
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! "Resize harddisk"
* most proper __start command__ : __'' nohup taskset -c 0 VBoxHeadless --startvm ubm1 &''__
* how to determine the ip address of the guest (DHCP):
{{{
metskem@gneisenau ~/vbox $ vb guestproperty enumerate ubuntu910 | grep IP
Name: /VirtualBox/GuestInfo/Net/0/V4/IP, value: 10.0.0.177, timestamp: 1257594803542047000, flags:
}}}
* what irritated me is that the output of the VBoxManage command is always cluttered with Sun advertisement :
{{{
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.0.10
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.
}}}
also the long command name VBoxManage with two capitals in it is not quick to type, so I got rid of that by create this one line script :
{{{
VBoxManage $* |grep -v 'VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version' | grep -v 'Sun Microsystems, Inc.' | grep -v 'All rights reserved'
}}}
* you cannot assign more than one CPU, if you do it looks like it needs hw-virt, in VirtualBox gui you cannot even select more than one cpu, with the commandline you can, but it won't boot (even if ''--hwvirtex off'' has been set) :
{{{
Error: failed to start machine. Error message: VT-x is not available. (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX).
Unknown error creating VM (VERR_VMX_NO_VMX)
}}}
!! "Resize harddisk"
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!! Performance
! tar -czvf
I wanted to get an idea of much overhead there is, so comparing running a load on native hardware against running under VirtualBox.\\
Now you do a complete study on this subject, but no time for that.
I did just one very simple test :
{{{
metskem@ubm7:/tmp$ time tar -czf /tmp/ff.tar /usr/*
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from hard link targets
real 1m20.259s
user 0m27.586s
sys 0m27.286s
}}}
Then scp this tar file to the host, untar it to a temp directory and tar it again in the same way :
{{{
metskem@gneisenau /tmp/fff $ time tar -czf /tmp/ffnative.tar usr
real 0m29.273s
user 0m26.282s
sys 0m1.284s
}}}
||type||host ||guest
|real|29|80
|user|26|28
|sys|1|27
This is rather disappointing, I like to do some testing with a Java workload....
! ant compile jspwiki
{{{
metskem@ubm7:~/jspwiki$ time ant clean compile
Buildfile: build.xml
clean:
[delete] Deleting directory /home/metskem/jspwiki/build
[mkdir] Created dir: /home/metskem/jspwiki/build/tests/classpath
init:
[mkdir] Created dir: /home/metskem/jspwiki/build/classes
compile:
[javac] Compiling 431 source files to /home/metskem/jspwiki/build/classes
[javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
[javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 15 seconds
real 0m16.701s
user 0m3.372s
sys 0m7.512s
}}}
{{{
metskem@gneisenau /tmp/fff/jspwiki $ time ant clean compile
Buildfile: build.xml
clean:
[delete] Deleting directory /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build
[mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build/tests/classpath
init:
[mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build/classes
compile:
[javac] Compiling 431 source files to /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build/classes
[javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
[javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 10 seconds
real 0m10.653s
user 0m17.541s
sys 0m0.744s
}}}
||type||host (taskset -c 1)||host ||guest (taskset -c 1)||guest
|real|17|11|17|20
|user|16|18|3|4
|sys|1|1|8|9
This is a strange result, the host takes 18 user seconds versus 3 user seconds in the guest, for the host the wall-clock time is less than the sum of user and sys (2 cores, that's why ?), ............Yes indeed, that's why :
{{{
metskem@gneisenau /tmp/fff/jspwiki $ time taskset -c 1 ant clean compile
Buildfile: build.xml
clean:
[delete] Deleting directory /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build
[mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build/tests/classpath
init:
[mkdir] Created dir: /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build/classes
compile:
[javac] Compiling 431 source files to /tmp/fff/jspwiki/build/classes
[javac] Note: Some input files use or override a deprecated API.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
[javac] Note: Some input files use unchecked or unsafe operations.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:unchecked for details.
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 16 seconds
real 0m16.766s
user 0m15.897s
sys 0m0.816s
}}}
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