[CentOS-virt] moving from Xen to KVM
Dennis J.
dennisml at conversis.de
Wed Mar 17 14:35:30 UTC 2010
On 03/17/2010 02:15 PM, Hildebrand, Nils, 232 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just two questions:
> 1. Is there anything faster than XEN-paravirtualization?
>
> 2. Why XEN 5?
> XEN 3 is quite stable, too.
>
> I have 31 DomUs up and running on a single Box - and have a strong feeling that even 60 will run flawless.
> But: All of them are Para-Virtualized.
>
> I have no problem with disk IO-Bottlenecks since my DomUs are not Database-Servers - so there is mostly static information in the filesystems.
The term "paravirtualization" is becoming quite dated. Even if you install
a KVM guest without that option if you choose the virtio driver inside then
you still end up with "paravirtualized" I/O. With the advent of things like
nested page tables and SR-IOV the "fully virtualized=slow,
paravirtualized=way faster" logic is no longer necessarily true at least
not for every aspect of the system.
Regards,
Dennis
(Disclaimer: So far I'm running all my virtualized servers on Xen but use
KVM exclusively at home. Eventually I plan to migrate to KVM on the servers
too but at the moment I'm not in a hurry but that is not because i think
KVM isn't up for the task but because there is no urgent need to do so.)
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