From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 2 23:05:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 152CA16A400 for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 23:05:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40D713C44B for ; Sat, 2 Jun 2007 23:05:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-emulation@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Huc10-0006B4-D0 for freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:24:06 +0200 Received: from r5j156.net.upc.cz ([86.49.9.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:24:06 +0200 Received: from gamato by r5j156.net.upc.cz with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:24:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org From: martinko Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 00:23:47 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <67A57A9DEDC22CBEE0C436C1@ganymede.hub.org> <20070531220240.82E585B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: r5j156.net.upc.cz User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070531 SeaMonkey/1.1.2 In-Reply-To: <20070531220240.82E585B3E@mail.bitblocks.com> Sender: news Subject: Re: Running "Windows Emulation" headless ... possible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 23:05:10 -0000 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