Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen/VMWare Server comparison and "best Xen practices"?

Daniel de Kok wrote on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:25:07 +0200:

I use files, they are easy to manage. They ease up maintenance, since you can move them around, easily create new ones, etc. But I guess that raw partitions or LVM volumes are faster.

Files are good enough for our purposes, but the VMs don't heavily do disk I/O.

Thanks for the info. I now added the xen stuff to the possible target machine and there the performance situation is much nicer. I'm now testing installation on partitions. I agree handling of the filebased VMs is very nice.

Kai