Performance of virtual machines can be fairly significantly improved if you have hardware that specifically supports it and virtualization software (a hypervisor) that does as well. I read a fairly recent article on this about a week ago but cannot find it now. I'll post it when I find it again.
Andy Rob Huffstedtler wrote: > Do you have any performance stats on virtual box? I use it for > running Fedora hosted on my Windows laptop, and (subjectively) the > performance seems pretty bad compared to VirtualPC (which isn't known > for being lightning fast). Based on that experience, I would be > skeptical of using it for server virtualization. That said, my > skepticism could easily be overcome by data. > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I like VirtualBox. > > www.virtualbox.org <http://www.virtualbox.org/> > > They have a rather good enterprise solution as well. > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:28 PM, Chris McQuistion > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > I've used VMWare, in the past, and I currently use Virtual > Iron, because it has fairly simple administration and is far > cheaper than VMWare, if you want the bells and whistles. > > The big reasons to use VMWare or Virtual Iron (in my opinion) > is the nice gui administration tools and their ability to run > virtualized Windows guests very well, which has not worked > well for me, with Xen based virtualization under Red Hat or SuSE. > > Chris > > > On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:24 PM, andrew mcelroy > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Greetings, > > I am not trying to start a flame war or a rant, but I am > trying to get a feel for what Open Source virtualization > solutions are actually used. > > Currently I have a few servers virtualized inside Xen. > However, I keep hearing that KVM is "the way to go"TM for > hosting websites if you must stick to something open source. > > The purpose of these virtualized servers are to serve out > either wordpress mu sites or ruby on rails sites. > > In the arena of hosting I have ran across OpenVZ, KVM and Xen. > > I was wondering what everyone is using and why. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
