[CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

Sun Oct 17 17:44:59 UTC 2010
Grant McWilliams <grantmasterflash at gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <
dennisml at conversis.de> wrote:

> On 10/16/2010 08:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:16:42PM +0100, Bart Swedrowski wrote:
> >> Hi Karanbir,
> >>
> >> On 14 October 2010 19:59, Karanbir Singh<mail-lists at karan.org>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
> >>>> I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and
> features....now
> >>>
> >>> that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some
> >>> numbers on that.
> >>
> >> I have done some testing some time ago on one of the EQ machines that
> >> I got from hetzner.de.  Full spec of the machine was as following:
> >
> > Note that 64bit Xen guests should be HVM, not PV, for best performance.
> > Xen HVM guests obviously still need to have PV-on-HVM drivers installed.
> >
> > 32bit Xen guests can be PV.
>
> Hm, why would HVM be faster than PV for 64 bit guests?
>
> Regards,
>    Dennis
>

lol, there's seems to be a lot of hearsay surrounding performance and Xen.



Grant McWilliams

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