SAPB1 in virtual machine?

Hello!
Has anyone had a success story running SAP B1 in a virtual machine, particularly virtualbox? Here is our problem: sql or SAP installer is very inefficient and stalls the installation process at 100% cpu for hours.
Our setup. Host server:
2 x Intel(r) Xeon(r) CPU E5620 @ 2.40GHz (2 x 4 cores, 2 x 8 virtual processors)
24GB RAM
6 x 1TB SATA-3GB 7200 rpm in RAID5 (raidz1)
Software: Opensolaris, SunOS 5.11 snv_134b
Virtualbox 3.1.8
SAPB1 Virtual Machine (more details - at the bottom):
Hardware (virtual)
4 cores, 8GB RAM, 32MB video ram, 2 HDDs:
C:\ - host: VMDK 80GB, dynamically allocate storage, on RAID5/raidz1 volume, guest: NTFS
E:\ - host: VDI 200GB, dynamically allocate storage, on the same raidz1, guest: NTFS
Software:
Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit (180 days evaluation license)
SQL Server 2008 R2 (180 days evaluation license)
SAP B1 8.81
Situation:
SQL server is configured by SAP installer. When installing SAP Demo database the VMu2019s cpu usage stays at 100% with sqlserver process at 18%, RAM usage is at only 40% (60% free), the installation process takes 6-7 hours to complete. SQL data and log files are placed in the same C:\ drive as the guest operating system. Disk activity shown by the host system is on average 300KB/s writes. The load on the host machine is 10% cpu for the copy of VirtualBox running this VM but no other cpu- ram- or disk-intensive tasks running at all. Earlier tests showed 30MB/s sustained writes on raidz1 but significantly faster in bursts due to effective ZFS caching in hostu2019s RAM. For what I can tell, there is plenty of disk bandwidth, host cpu and ram and guest ram.
Thereu2019s also a weirdest thing: CPU figures on guest donu2019t add up: performance monitor shows 100% cpu used on all four cores but when you look at individual processes the biggest one is sqlserver at 18%, SAP setup is 0-3%, taskmanager itself is 6-12%, the rest is negligible including IDLE process at 0-2%. The machine is clearly very busy with slow screen updates etc. but the sum of all running processes plus idle process is at 40-50%. Once install of the demo database sucessfully finished many hours later cpu usage came back to normal - 95-97% idle.
Suspicions:
1. SAP installer and/or production executables are compiled so that they arenu2019t happy at all under a hypervisor or only under virtualbox in particular. Earlier trial installation of the an old, 2004, version of SAPB1 on the same VM didnu2019t show this problem although we didnu2019t specifically test performance, it was just an early test installation. Slow u201Cby designu201D?
1a. SAP is not happy with evaluation versions of Windows Server or SQL. Slow u201Cby designu201D?
2. Placing demo DB files and logs on a different virtual drive (E:\) or an iSCSI drive will dramatically improve performance of SQL - This is next thing we are going to try.
2a. VirtualBoxu2019es realisation of VMDK (VMware disk format) is affecting performance.
2b. The format of virtual disks was chosen to dynamically allocate storage which is, although it seems plenty of spare host disk performance is available is still inefficient. But then, why CPU usage is the problem? Is that caused by badly written .exe files that do not return spare cpu cycles while waiting for disk operations?
Many thanks for any tips!
More on VM:
Guest OS:        Windows 2008 (64 bit)
Memory size:     8192MB
VRAM size:       32MB
Number of CPUs: 4
Synthetic Cpu:   off
CPUID overrides: None
Boot menu mode: message and menu
Boot Device (1): Floppy
Boot Device (2): DVD
Boot Device (3): HardDisk
ACPI:            on
IOAPIC:          on
PAE:             on
Time offset:     0 ms
Hardw. virt.ext: on
Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: on
Nested Paging:   on
VT-x VPID:       on
Monitor count:   1
3D Acceleration: off
Storage Controller Name (0):            SATA Controller
Storage Controller Type (0):            IntelAhci
Storage Controller Instance Number (0): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (0): 30
Storage Controller Port Count (0):      2
Storage Controller Name (1):            IDE Controller
Storage Controller Type (1):            PIIX4
Storage Controller Instance Number (1): 0
Storage Controller Max Port Count (1): 2
Storage Controller Port Count (1):      2
SATA Controller (0, 0): /export/home/admin/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/RAID/disk1.vmdk
SATA Controller (1, 0): /export/home/admin/.VirtualBox/HardDisks/RAID/disk2.vdi
IDE Controller (0, 0): /opt/VirtualBox/amd64/additions/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso

While the other suggestions here have merit, I wonder what can be done with your current solution...
Why are you running such an old version of VirtualBox? Version 4.1.4 is available for Solaris machines; I would think you could use that under OpenSolaris (although I am unfamiliar with the details of OpenSolaris, as I haven't run it).
The dynamically-allocated disk is the second most likely culprit in the performance issues, right behind the older version of VirtualBox... I have used the dynamic allocation many times for file servers and application servers, but a database server needs to have the highest disk I/O performance possible. I don't like to see my client application waiting on the database to allocate new disk space which is waiting on the hypervisor to provide additional disk... I think you see my point.
You might take a snapshot or clone the VM and test on another machine, even to the point of cloning the existing virtual hard drive to one which was created as a statically allocated disk.
Those would be the first two items I would try out. Let us know how successful you are; I'd love to hear what seems to be the bottleneck, as we are considering placing our B1 services inside a VM. We are considering VirtualBox, VMware, and Citrix Xen at the moment.
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