[ale] Speeding up VMs

[Alex Carver]

I'll try some of those settings, the one thing I didn't change was the
chipset.  I'll make a new VM and see what it does.  As for the LVM, the
point is to practice with LVM management so that I can use that
information when I have a bare-metal system using LVM.

On 2016-01-09 15:39, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> http://blog.jdpfu.com/slowVbox
> For non-GPU workloads, you should be getting 90+% of native performance.
> 
> 
> Using LVM inside VMs isn't very useful, IMHO. With Windows as the HostOS, you're
> sorta screwed, since that is where the LVM would really be helpful.
> 
> IMHO.
> 
> 
> On 01/09/2016 05:29 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>> I'm playing with VMs on a home Win 7 computer so I can practice using
>> the same setup with a work Win 7 computer (the idea being to run Linux
>> in the VM for certain tasks).
>>
>> Right now I've started using VirtualBox but it seems a bit slower than I
>> expected (I know it's going to be slower than bare metal).  Any
>> suggestions for improving the speed/efficiency of the VM?
>>
>> The test machine is a Core i7 with 16 GB RAM so I've given the VM 4 GB
>> of RAM.  The installation process for the guest Linux is exceptionally
>> slow, though, which is why I suspect I've set something up wrong or
>> maybe VirtualBox isn't the best choice?
>>
>> According to the guest machine properties, VT-x, nested paging and KVM
>> Paravirtualization are all enabled.
>>
>> For the installation, I'm using this as an experimental platform to
>> learn how to install and manage LVM (and some other experiments on
>> something that I don't care if I have to wipe).  So I have one virtual
>> HDD of 20 GB split into three partitions (/boot, LVM PV, and swap), the
>> PV is part of a single VG and there's a single LV on top of that VG for
>> root.
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