Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:23:47 +0200 From: martinko <gamato@users.sf.net> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running "Windows Emulation" headless ... possible? Message-ID: <f3sqlk$fs2$1@sea.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <20070531220240.82E585B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> References: <67A57A9DEDC22CBEE0C436C1@ganymede.hub.org> <20070531220240.82E585B3E@mail.bitblocks.com>
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Bakul Shah wrote: >>>> Can I run two or more QEMU instances on the same server with different IPs >> ? >>> Yes. But you have to make sure each machine gets its own mac >>> address. >> Is that addressed using the tap interface, as Scott mentioned? > > Yes. You'd probably want to put tap devices in a bridge (in > /etc/qemu-ifup: ifconfig $1 up; ifconfig bridge0 addm $1). > >> Also, just curious, but what is the performance like? I have one application >> that I need to run, so I'm kinda hoping that maybe it will work with wine >> without all of the extra Windows overhead, but if it doesn't ... > > Performance will be worse. But I guess you knew that:-) Only > you can decide if you can live with degraded performance. > You can try running on an SMP machine but I am not sure if > kqemu is SMP safe. Make sure you have enough RAM to avoid > each Qemu from paging and allocate enough RAM to each VM to > avoid paging within each VM. Finally, if the primary use of > your machine is for running a bunch of VMs, consider other > alternatives such as Linux + xen, Linux + kvm, vmware etc. hello, i plan to run windows in qemu and i have this question: should i give more memory to qemu instance (via -m) and decrease windows pagefile size or possibly not use it all, or should i just leave pagefile as set up by windows ? cheers, martin
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