From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
To: "dokter@icg.tugraz.at" <dokter@icg.tugraz.at>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Phoronix Xen vs KVM vs Virtualbox benchmark with Ubuntu 11.10
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:57:14 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1320148634.3084.12.camel@cthulhu.hellion.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EAFD891.8000204@icg.tugraz.at>
On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 07:31 -0400, Mark Dokter wrote:
> In that test, the KVM machine uses virtio disk and nic devices, while
> the Xen machine uses the qemu emulated devices. Could that be the cause
> for the poor performance?
Very much so. Without using the PVHVM drivers in the Xen case this is
very much an apples to oranges comparison.
Ian.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-01 11:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-31 21:40 Phoronix Xen vs KVM vs Virtualbox benchmark with Ubuntu 11.10 Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-11-01 11:31 ` Mark Dokter
2011-11-01 11:57 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2011-11-01 13:26 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2011-11-01 21:43 ` Alex Bligh
2011-11-01 23:00 ` Ian Campbell
2011-11-01 12:19 ` Boris Derzhavets
2011-11-01 20:57 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-11-02 13:08 Boris Derzhavets
2011-11-02 13:30 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2011-11-02 13:34 ` Alex Bligh
2011-11-02 17:07 ` Alex Bligh
2011-11-02 17:30 ` Boris Derzhavets
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