Re: XEN vs VirtualBox

2011-04-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 18:39 +0200, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > It is a 6 x Quad-Core server with virtualization support enabled (runs > on RHEL 5) [Please don't top-post; see the Guidelines] Have you enabled multiple cores in your VBox configuration, as per the manual? On the "Processor" tab,

Re: XEN vs VirtualBox

2011-04-05 Thread Digimer
On 04/05/2011 12:39 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > It is a 6 x Quad-Core server with virtualization support enabled (runs > on RHEL 5) Are you sure the problem is that you are CPU bound? Could this be a memory or disk i/o issue? -- Digimer E-Mail: digi...@alteeve.com AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.c

Re: XEN vs VirtualBox

2011-04-05 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
It is a 6 x Quad-Core server with virtualization support enabled (runs on RHEL 5) Le 05/04/11 18:33, Patrick O'Callaghan a écrit : > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 12:29 -0400, Digimer wrote: >> On 04/05/2011 12:09 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> until now, I use VirtualBox to manage several virtu

Re: XEN vs VirtualBox

2011-04-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 12:29 -0400, Digimer wrote: > On 04/05/2011 12:09 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > > Hi, > > > > until now, I use VirtualBox to manage several virtual machines. I have > > performances problems. I can see that the VMS don't use really all CPU > > capabilities. I think that the prob

Re: XEN vs VirtualBox

2011-04-05 Thread Digimer
On 04/05/2011 12:09 PM, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: > Hi, > > until now, I use VirtualBox to manage several virtual machines. I have > performances problems. I can see that the VMS don't use really all CPU > capabilities. I think that the problem come from the CPU emulation done > by VirtualBox. > > So

XEN vs VirtualBox

2011-04-05 Thread Luc MAIGNAN
Hi, until now, I use VirtualBox to manage several virtual machines. I have performances problems. I can see that the VMS don't use really all CPU capabilities. I think that the problem come from the CPU emulation done by VirtualBox. So I said to me that the solution is to use a real hypervisor