On 11/10/2009 04:02 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 06:57:08AM -0800, Grant McWilliams wrote: >> All of it except for that! Your VM isn't just a process accessing a >> disk. With KVM they've attacked the most commond devices - network and >> disk and offered paravirtualized devices. This doesn't concern me as the >> speed has proven to be good although in mysqlbench Xen still leads by >> quite a bit. I'm concerned about everything else. With 41 interactive >> VMs I worry about how fast the hypervisor can switch focus, the cpu >> utilization of each etc.. > > What are the hardware specs you're running your 41 VM's off of just out > of curiosity? I'd be interested in that info too especially the storage setup. I imagine local storage isn't suitable for this many VMs on a single host. Regards, Dennis