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-rw-r--r--hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn6
-rw-r--r--hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn18
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diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
index 4766b2be..9f085d24 100644
--- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ Check if your CPU supports kvm:
Do not enable kernel-kqemu, as that assumes some particular behavior from the guest kernel, which we are reluctant to artificially add to gnumach.
+If QEMU with KVM is not available, [[Virtualbox]] reportedly has better
+performance.
+
#### If you have hardware support (recommended):
$ apt-get install qemu-kvm
$ modprobe kvm
diff --git a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
index 02ab88e7..0731b8d6 100644
--- a/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/virtualbox.mdwn
@@ -20,3 +20,9 @@ supported.
The network controller should be configured as PCnet-PCI II or PCNet-FAST III
for instance. INTEL PRO or Paravirtualized Network do not work.
+
+
+# Performance
+
+If [[QEMU with KVM|qemu]] is not available, VirtualBox reportedly has better
+performance.
diff --git a/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c9ec4d34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation open_issue_hurd]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2011-06-01
+
+ <antrik> ugh... I just realized why settrans -a without -f doesn't
+ generally work on filesystem translators
+ <antrik> obviously, it needs -R too!