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Re: Recommendations for XP under Linux

Muli Ben-Yehuda
Tue, 04 Jul 2006 06:53:08 -0700

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 04:17:04PM +0300, Michael Ben-Nes wrote:

> If you have Hardware virtualization like Intel vt-x you can use Xen.
> 
> And the performance overhead is from 0.3% to 5% ( it will kick vmware butt )

These numbers are for para-virtualized guests, not fully virtualized
guests (and are somewhat in dispute in any case). Compute performance
with VT is reasonable; IO performance with VT is horrible.

Cheers,
Muli

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