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Re: Performance issues with /gnu/store in virtual machines
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: Performance issues with /gnu/store in virtual machines |
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Sun, 20 Aug 2017 11:02:16 +0200 |
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Hi Chris,
> So I was trying out using VMs created through Guix for more things,
> particularly as they can be run as part of derivations, e.g. the system
> tests for Guix.
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> However, I'm seeing anything that does I/O performing very poorly
> compared with the host system.
(I’m not using VMs as KVM doesn’t work on my laptop.)
Have you tried specifying “virtio” drivers for the virtual disks? I
don’t think they are the default and I’m hopeful that with virtio
drivers I/O performance will be comparable.
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