now that's what i call a split!
up_the_irons: thanks. virtio is what I needed
davidL: ah, np
... is that not on by default?
not in archlinux
the arch linux installer has some trouble with it
hmm. How could I tell if it's on for me?
I needed to load virtio drivers for arch to see the hard drive
jdoe: your block devices will be named /dev/vda*
note the "v"
yeah I didn't think it was on.
ticket time I guess.
note also, only linux has virtio drivers.  freebsd / openbsd do not have them (that I know of, maybe freebsd 9...  haven't checked)
fbsd9 might, I forget too.
this started off as obsd, but I reinstalled and never bothered to tell you guys.
small wonder the disk performance is still ass.
;)
ah
up_the_irons: any reason to assume that's not in the stock kernel?
jdoe: which distro?
archlinux doesn't provide it, by default
debian, looks like it's there.
i believe debian / ubuntu do, but not sure on that.  if the arch is virtio upon install, then it makes the correct initrd
ok cool, shouldn't be a problem
I just extracted the one I've got in /boot, I see a module, so I guess it's good to go.
worst case, nothing particularly important on it.
so yeah, go ahead whenever.
roger that
Getting a crap load of IPv6 prefixes from Init7 now, w00t
init7?
jdoe: http://www.init7.net/
(i can't read it either)
big ISP in EU
but google can!
or not...
sever error
lol
lol