Running MBS in a Linux VM or Windows VM

[stangri 2]

So I have a question about what's going to provide better performance.

 

I already have the CentOS 6 VM which runs zfs, samba and netatalk and I can either have MBS installed there as well (in which case as far as I understand it will run the Windows binary wrapped in Mono) or I can run a Windows VM with the MBS binary running natively in it, but the file access will be thru the virtualized network card/samba.

 

So which will be better for the MBS performance? I'm sure running another VM will be taxing on the hardware so that should be taken into an account. Or is the Mono so good that I shouldn't be concerned about performance running a Mono-wrapped Windows binary on Linux?

 

 

[thefirstofthe300 291]

Mono is quite good if you stick to version 3.10.

 

Since Microsoft released the .NET source the Mono project is going to get much better as the Mono guys replace hacked work-arounds with Microsoft's source.

 

To answer your immediate question, if the only reason you would spin up a Windows VM would be to run MBS, it wouldn't be worth it in my opinion. The Mono version is stable enough that I can't see any difference running the server on a Windows machine versus a Linux box.

 

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