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. :-) > -- 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
