Cool, thanks.

I have a quad Proliant with 16gb of ram coming this week and I'll throw 
ubuntu server on it with kvm.



On 05/10/2010 03:47 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 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. :-)
>

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