From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 13 11:50:35 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A1C9106564A for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:50:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@mawer.org) Received: from mail-vb0-f54.google.com (mail-vb0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3692B8FC14 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:50:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vbmv11 with SMTP id v11so4400047vbm.13 for ; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:50:33 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=7W8qX7kWr2h7bObnWLagvW6HRCnmyOjujdyAxBL4mjQ=; b=lXsopVxMACEJvs22uXN5mrBMueIxtCpjZQM3NU3jiC1frdeD4VDToMEqI0Kctjc2dS rgxLfC69xLRHW82OBKDO/x4fzHT58wlqMlzaXNgWv4REtHjeJFWns4P9rKUkxk5PyjGr 06yG7OdEAq+5DOz94LemrzT9o3sKU+hHgfo1igkOd+RqC9klQWreRgSipp47jZQium3+ MGBUC32QZEPmb4rPxPGpzpJu2MKWtu4ngqhB7e3jTBOUikHhiGo5NNKjXBd5N5JDBX9c 4nqcDj1xCikdctENSMcJhvt3+WHYCs4DWMF4TUdNJRrNoK7dWZOoJ9zt7gEXXCzemmGT XJ2A== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.157.65 with SMTP id a1mr8028713vcx.39.1344858633112; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:50:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.58.168.242 with HTTP; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 04:50:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:50:33 +1000 Message-ID: From: Antony Mawer To: Chris Knight X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmmkt+VLUzulzmsrnyNJCsDbzAJJmEaM2381QV2HtBT4jdGjLba+Cec//8aXWSH98pWUmk0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Hyper-V Integration Components Patch for FreeBSD 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 and 9.1-BETA1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:50:35 -0000 Great, really looking forward to trying this out! Have you noticed any difference with larger file systems using the HyperV block driver? Since 8.x the standard file systems seem to suffer corruption with > 40gb, which is a show stopper for our clients wanting to deploy on HyperV. I hoped this might solve the problem...? -- Antony On Monday, August 13, 2012, Chris Knight wrote: > Hello, > > I've created some patchsets based on the beta release of the Hyper-V > integration components for FreeBSD. > > The patchsets are for 8.2, 8.3, 9.0 and 9.1-BETA1 and can be found here: > > http://blog.chrisara.com.au/2012/08/hyper-v-integration-components-for_13.html > > Although the Hyper-V kernel modules compile, they'll cause a kernel > panic if loaded, but I got them built cleanly to allow for easy kernel > swapping using nextboot. > Using GEOM labels makes it easy to swap between a Hyper-V enabled > kernel and a non-Hyper-V enabled kernel. > > It's also worth noting that the Hyper-V network driver is flaky - UDP > works fairly well, but TCP is very flaky. Haven't yet got to the root > cause of this. > > The storage performance increase is very nice, as is the heartbeat and > shutdown capabilities. I've yet to check if KVP functionality is > included. > > > -- > Regards, > Chris Knight > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " >