On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > I've temporarily got vmware server running on my new "server", and intend > to migrate over to kvm as soon as possible, if it provides enough incentive > (extra performance, features). Currently I'm waiting for full iommu support > in the kernel, modules and userspace, and didn't plan to migrate till I had > hardware that could do iommu, kvm fully supported iommu + DMA for devices > "passed through", could also pass through more than one device per guest (I > saw hints that the intel iommu implementation can only do one device per > guest? please tell me I'm wrong, it seems like an odd design choice to > make), and full migration. > > But if I can get enough performance over vmware server 2 with plain old kvm > + virtio, I'd happily migrate. > > I saw a message late last year comparing the two, but I know how quickly > things change in the OSS world, and I also intend to use "raw" devices > (possibly AoE) for guest disks (not qcow or anything like it), and virtio > for networking. > > So has anyone tested the two lately? Got any experiences you'd like to > share?
I suppose no-one has any? -- Thomas Fjellstrom [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
