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[Xen-users] Ubuntu HVM installation is very slow

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Subject: [Xen-users] Ubuntu HVM installation is very slow
From: Dot Yet <dot.yet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:28:29 -0400
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Hi Everyone,

I am trying my hands on xen under Solaris SXCE build 113. The machine has the following configuration:

2 Quad Core Xeon CPUs
16 GB RAM
Solaris SXCE b113
4 disks - 2 mirrors x 2 stripes under ZFS

The problem is that xen HVM is very slow. I am using the following command to create an Ubuntu 9.0.4 test vm.

virt-install -n test1 -r 2048 --vcpus=2 -f /vdatapool/data/test1.img -s 50 --vnc --hvm  --os-type=linux --location=/vsafepool/shared/
Installs/Linux/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso

Based on some random bits found on google, i did hear it to be slow, but did not expect it to be crawling slow. I am opening the UI through a remote VNC connection.

Am I missing something here?

Can you guys point me in the right direction?

Regards,
Dot.yet

Following is the output from zpool's iostat:

               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
vdatapool    79.8G   848G      0    124      0  15.6M
  mirror    39.9G   424G      0     62      0  7.80M
    c3t2d0      -      -      0     62      0  7.80M
    c3t3d0      -      -      0     62      0  7.80M
  mirror    39.9G   424G      0     62      0  7.80M
    c3t4d0      -      -      0     62      0  7.80M
    c3t5d0      -      -      0     62      0  7.80M
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
vdatapool    79.8G   848G      0    135      0  17.0M
  mirror    39.9G   424G      0     65      0  8.18M
    c3t2d0      -      -      0     65      0  8.18M
    c3t3d0      -      -      0     65      0  8.18M
  mirror    39.9G   424G      0     70      0  8.79M
    c3t4d0      -      -      0     70      0  8.79M
    c3t5d0      -      -      0     70      0  8.79M
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----

               capacity     operations    bandwidth
pool         used  avail   read  write   read  write
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----
vdatapool    79.8G   848G      0    119      0  15.0M
  mirror    39.9G   424G      0     60      0  7.56M
    c3t2d0      -      -      0     60      0  7.56M
    c3t3d0      -      -      0     60      0  7.56M
  mirror    39.9G   424G      0     59      0  7.43M
    c3t4d0      -      -      0     59      0  7.43M
    c3t5d0      -      -      0     59      0  7.43M
----------  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----  -----


some data from vmstat as well:

 kthr      memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
 r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr cd cd f0 s0   in   sy   cs us sy id
 0 0 0 22436700 13658804 7 2 0  0  0  0  0  0  0 20  1  527 1037  312  0  0 100
 0 0 0 13341124 4574844 25 69 0 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1844 149575 2155 4 21 75
 0 0 0 13340852 4574568 7 14 0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 2997 142555 3288 4 20 76
 1 0 0 13340704 4574420 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1567 150658 1432 3 21 76
 1 0 0 13340576 4574292 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1403 148538 1385 3 21 75
 0 0 0 13340436 4574152 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1477 150022 1561 4 21 75
 0 0 0 13340420 4574136 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1293 152552 1224 3 21 76
 0 0 0 13340284 4574000 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1350 144503 1279 4 21 75
 1 0 0 13340144 4573860 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1619 151940 1616 3 21 76
 3 0 0 13340016 4573732 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1403 136266 1404 3 19 78
 1 0 0 13340008 4573724 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1320 147669 1257 4 21 76
 0 0 0 13340008 4573724 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1308 148438 1345 4 21 76
 0 0 0 13339872 4573588 8 9  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 1420 147045 1668 3 20 77


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