What about performance? Isn't the Xen hypervisor simply a stripped down linux kernel with Xen? I would think that you would get better performance through the Xen hypervisor with direct hardware pass through than KVM and a full blown linux install. Is that not true?
On 05/10/2010 01:42 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: >> I've been thinking of switching from vmware server to full >> virtualization on my laptop using Xen. I would have the Xen hypervisor >> running and then Dom0 running a linux flavor with my virtual machines >> converted to Xen guests. Is anyone Xen? Do you think this would be >> feasible? What linux flavor would you recommend as Dom0? >> > I once setup a virtual server hosting service with Xen so I'm pretty > familiar with it. It can be a real pain to get a lot of things > working right. I would second the opinion that KVM is the way to go. > It's relatively painless by comparison. > > -- Daniel B. Herrington Director of Field Services Robert Mark Technologies [email protected] o: 651-769-2574 m: 503-358-8575 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
