Re: wip/virtualbox vs emulators/qemu vs xen performance comparison?

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On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 10:19:00AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 07:30:38AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 07:56:50PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > If you want to run on a desktop you'll probably run into graphic drivers
> > > issues with NetBSD/Xen.
> > > 
> > > qemu on NetBSD is a plain emulator, no hardware speedup.
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what virtualbox would do on a NetBSD host. AFAIK this would
> > > need some kernel support which we don't have.
> > 
> > Thanks. I think virtualbox might not be an option while qemu may be ruled
> > out due to being too slow for this application.
> > 
> > The leaves only Xen as an option.
> > 
> > I do not have any high end graphics requirements (3D etc). Could Xen still
> > be a problem. Here is a link to hardware specification:
> 
> No idea. Maybe vesa could work. I've not tried startx on a Xen dom0 for
> a long time, all my Xen hosts use serial console.
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --

vesa works but only if you assign like 3GB RAM to dom0.
More will reboot.
I assume netbsd/xen uses memory that vesa thinks it hsould not like with
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