Comments | gothgeekgirl: Lethal mix

gothgeekgirl

Lethal mix

May 13, 2012 23:54

Take one 8GB OpenSolaris system with a ZFS filesystem unconstrained by zfs_arc_max. Add in an OpenIndiana VirtualBox that I've given 3 of those 8GB so I can play with it. Leave the VM running for a week or so. Result: A system so thoroughly wedged that it won't even serve DNS, much less allow an ssh login. Wow ( Read more... )

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ltempt May 14 2012, 08:34:13 UTC

VirtualBox and ZFS just aren't good friends. I first discovered this on my first-time VDI implementation, which turned out to be a road full of landmines. If I was doing VDI again, even at home, I'd deploy anything except VirtualBox.

gothgeekgirl May 14 2012, 09:07:03 UTC

Yah, snapshots seem to copy the entire virtual disk, but the only problem that ever caused me was "zpool almost full" warnings on my laptop. Of course, I've never left my Win7 VM running for days on end, either. We'll see what happens when I've got the memory usage for both the VM and ZFS sanely constrained.