On Mon, 10 May 2010, Daniel Herrington wrote:

> 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?

In my experience, the real-world performance difference approaches 
zero for anything but a highly loaded server.

In fact, if I was pushing a VM hard enough and often enough for the 
differences to matter, I wouldn't be running a VM. :-)

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
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