Mailing List virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #156

From:	"Doug Bissett" <virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [Virtualized eCS] Virtual box 6.0.14 r 133895, acpi shutdown with AOS 5.0.3 and virtual cpu - 2 cpu success
Date:	Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:56:10 -0700 (MST)
To:	"Virtualized eCS Users Mailing List" <virtualized_ecs_users@2rosenthals.com>

On 2020-01-27, at 23:44:00, Massimo S. wrote: > > > >Il 27/01/2020 22:40, Doug Bissett ha scritto: >>On 2020-01-27, at 19:04:21, Massimo S. wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>Il 27/01/2020 13:31, Massimo S. ha scritto: >>>>Il 27/01/2020 12:35, Massimo S. ha scritto: >>>>> >>...snip... >>>>> >>>>>Hi Doug, >>>>> >>>>>i've moved to MMLEM.OS2 AN driver (1.1.3), but i'm still >>seeing poor >>>>>datarates 4,7-6MegaBytes/sec laptop -> AOS 503 VM >>>>>(the VM is hosted on a intel xeon 8 cores supermicro server) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>massimo >>>>more tests: >>>>virtual-nic: AMD 1core 2,5MB/sec >>>>virtual-nic: AMD 2core 3,5MB/sec >>>>virtual-nic: MML 2core 4,5MB/sec >>>>with MMLEM is syrely better >>>>but very far for a VM that has his storage on SSD >>>>and connected with Intel Gigabit NICs >>>>any help? >>Well, the AMD device is 100 Mbs, while the Intel device is 1000 >>Mbs, so you can't compare them. Since NICs work at a limited >>speed (very much slower than any modern disk drive, even at 1000 >>Mbs), I don't know why you are seeing those numbers. My guess is >>that you do not have a good setup. > >we have see allmost all parameters... It would be easy to miss something. > >>You also need to remember to >>mark virtual disk drives as being SSD, in the VM, or VBox will >>insert seek delays. It doesn't matter what the real disk is. > >already set SSD on all VMs >moving a 6GB file from a partition to another (all JFS) >inside the same guest VM i get >100MegaBytes/sec (also 120MB/sec) >so it's not a disk datarate issue > >>>>thanks >>> >>>i've tried an old eCS2.2b guest on VMware hypervisor ESX 6.5 >>running on >>>the same hardware >>> >>>i get about 20MegaBytes/sec ftp datarates... >>>same eCS 2.2b on vbox i get 4,5MegaBytes/sec ftp datarates... >>> >>>(not talking that with Vbox i can't autostart VMs at boot) >>There is a way, but I don't remember how. I am sure it is in the docs >>somewhere. > >there is a way under linux as host >i'm running WS2019 with i'm much more comfortable > >anyway i've found a way to start the 2 VMs at Win logon >which is sufficient for me at the moment > >there is also a software that runs VMs as services >but it cost 49$ > >https://www.coretechnologies.com/products/AlwaysUp/Install.html > >i've already bought the software that do live bkups... >anyway i will mind if buy it > >there is also this software: > >https://github.com/onlyfang/VBoxVmService > >that's free, but it has issues (it don't work at all, sigh) I don't know anything about any of them. I use VMs to be able to run various versions of software, so I can try things, when something isn't working. At the moment, I don't have a good setup to try running a FTP server, so I can't try that without doing another install. > >>>if i find a free sw for live bkups of VMs under ESX >>>i will go with ESX has hypervisor >>> >>>massimo >>From the little that I know about ESX, it does not virtualize a >>machine. It shares a real machine with more than one operating >>system. If it works, use it. > >i still have to find how to schedule bkups >how to add notifications > >i've found "GhettoVCB"* that's free runs under ESX free hypervisor >and do live bkups (i mean bkups without turning off the VMs) >but i still have to find a way to schedule it >e.g. one time per night... I never bothered under windows, although the Task Scheduler should run a program, at a scheduled time. Most operating systems have some sort of Cron program. >and it uses NFS as protocol that i don't like so much >anyway i also have a Qnap nap that use NFS >so i could use it as storage for bkups... > >* https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8760 I don't use windows enough to worry about nightly backups. I use RSync under OS/2 (using the DragText scheduler). There is DeltaCopy, that runs RSync under windows. I don't know if it would do what you want. >>I still think you have a bad setup in VBox, but I don't have the time >>to try to figure it out. >the CPU is a xeon 8cores but clocked at 2Ghz, i guess that Vbox is very >"clock/frequency" oriented, the much higher is the clock, the faster are >performances There are a lot of pieces that fit together, to improve performance. A fast host definitely helps, but that isn't the only thing. >this is my tought at the moment >as far from my tests, MS free Hyper-V is way the faster hypervisor >around >but unfortunately eCS/AOS don't run under it :( >this one does everything, live bkups, live replica and >comes with a number of interesting features AFAIK, Hyper-V only works with windows guests. >> there was a post, some time ago, in this mail >> list, about how to make a modern VBox setup for OS/2 (probably >> eCS at the time) > >i'm subscribed since 3th jan 2020 :( > > >massimo Web archives are publicly available at: http://lists.2rosenthals.com, but it seems that a lot of content went missing, when the Arca Noae servers crashed. I keep them for one year, then delete them. What you need would be somewhere in the middle of the missing stuff. I guess I need to do the setup thing all over again, when I find the time. -- **************************** From Doug Bissett's ArcaOS system dougb007 at telus.net **************************** ... If you want to hear God's laughter, become a computer expert

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