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Date:      Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:27:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 8.3
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207142023030.1821@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20120714141629.7d968e4e@bhuda.mired.org>
References:  <20120714061141.473cc8ee@bhuda.mired.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1207141952220.1609@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20120714141629.7d968e4e@bhuda.mired.org>

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> Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>
>> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU)
>
> If that the one normally listed as E3-1220? If so, it's a Sandy Bridge
yes.

> processor. If not, then I have not idea what it is.

so it is. it have working AES-NI.

I am such a kind of person that i am completely not on-time with 
marketing, namings, etc..

I just asked what CPUs will support AES-NI which is important for me (geli 
speedup) and got that in Dell Server ;)


Virtualbox works great with windoze on that machine.

>> FreeBSD have linux emulation. i think you should use it instead of VBox if
>> you need to run linux environments under FreeBSD.
>
> Yes, it does. And I use it when I can. However, there are applications
> that it won't run, because of missing kernel features. And of course,
> it does absolutely not good at all if you need to run something other
> than Linux.

> would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox
> performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means
> all 64 bit guests).
>
i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install.

In windows you have to install "guest additions" without this it is plain 
terrible.

>> Windows runs great (as for windows of course) under VBox.
>
> Not for me. *Every* 64-bit guest OS has sucky performance. Linux,

Are you sure with two level pagetables featured in modern CPUs including 
sandy bridge?

> Are you only running 32-bit guests? Are you running on 9.x or 8.x?

for production - yes (6 instances of windows XP). Virtualbox does never 
make main workload for me, it is just addon. On FreeBSD 8.3.

But i've tried Windows 7 64-bit and it worked fine. didn't see any 
problems with latency you describe



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