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OK just re-tested with the latest version (which is very different looking for sure) on the latest OSX on my top specced late 2015 iMac 5K 27''. I mounted the

by mrmondo 10y ago

OK just re-tested with the latest version (which is very different looking for sure) on the latest OSX on my top specced late 2015 iMac 5K 27''. I mounted the latest CentOS 7 ISO image, completely standard and md5 summed, it boots to install and I have no keyboard or mouse control OR the VM is immediately frozen. Seemed to boot faster than Fusion which is an improvement from the last time I tried. I'll next try a shudder Windows 10 shudder VM.

mrmondo 10y ago
I just re-tried installing CentOS 7 for the 4th time from the install DVD again and mouse / keyboard randomly works!? I don't think it was user error, but I'm not convinced it was a bug in the software either, perhaps my desktop was blocking usb access for some reason. Performance of the install seems a LOT better than last time I tried. Will report back.
- mrmondo 10y ago
  I found that bridged networking does not work at all, no traffic flows, but the default 'shared' networking works perfectly. I'm now doing an update of CentOS and will install the latest stable kernel from elrepo kernel-ml and fio, then I'll benchmark disk IO (I'm running a PCIe NVMe SSD that averages 1600-2000MB/s for sequential writes/reads so this should be interesting)
  - mrmondo 10y ago
    All went well with the update as expect, nice to have a modern kernel running, clearly a lot quicker, boots in around half a second after the BIOS. Points of note thus far: - Unsure if EFI is supported? - Seems to be no way to create templates - Cannot import a single file OVF image - Cannot clone a VM - Cannot snapshot a VM - While importing a VM, you can't access the main window to start / edit other VMs UPDATE: scratch that - you can - but it's slow as anything even with none of my computers resources maxed out, it appears to be single threaded and perhaps some locking is occuring on the GUI. - DISCARD / TRIM SSD support works perfectly as expected, unlike in VMware.
    - mrmondo 10y ago
      Importing a Windows 10 shudder OVA _directory_ export from VMware Fusion worked perfectly and was quick to complete. - After installing the guest addons which was very quick as they must be quite light weight, all drivers worked perfectly and performance seems good in general (for windows anyway), have not tested 3D yet. - No native resolution scaling when resizing the VM window even after installing tools _NOTE:_ I will turn this thread into a blog post and put it up on https://smcleod.net https://smcleod.net when I have time, perhaps this weekend.

by mrmondo 10y ago

mrmondo 10y ago

I just re-tried installing CentOS 7 for the 4th time from the install DVD again and mouse / keyboard randomly works!? I don't think it was user error, but I'm not convinced it was a bug in the software either, perhaps my desktop was blocking usb access for some reason. Performance of the install seems a LOT better than last time I tried. Will report back.

mrmondo 10y ago
I found that bridged networking does not work at all, no traffic flows, but the default 'shared' networking works perfectly. I'm now doing an update of CentOS and will install the latest stable kernel from elrepo kernel-ml and fio, then I'll benchmark disk IO (I'm running a PCIe NVMe SSD that averages 1600-2000MB/s for sequential writes/reads so this should be interesting)
- mrmondo 10y ago
  All went well with the update as expect, nice to have a modern kernel running, clearly a lot quicker, boots in around half a second after the BIOS. Points of note thus far: - Unsure if EFI is supported? - Seems to be no way to create templates - Cannot import a single file OVF image - Cannot clone a VM - Cannot snapshot a VM - While importing a VM, you can't access the main window to start / edit other VMs UPDATE: scratch that - you can - but it's slow as anything even with none of my computers resources maxed out, it appears to be single threaded and perhaps some locking is occuring on the GUI. - DISCARD / TRIM SSD support works perfectly as expected, unlike in VMware.
  - mrmondo 10y ago
    Importing a Windows 10 shudder OVA _directory_ export from VMware Fusion worked perfectly and was quick to complete. - After installing the guest addons which was very quick as they must be quite light weight, all drivers worked perfectly and performance seems good in general (for windows anyway), have not tested 3D yet. - No native resolution scaling when resizing the VM window even after installing tools _NOTE:_ I will turn this thread into a blog post and put it up on https://smcleod.net https://smcleod.net when I have time, perhaps this weekend.