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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Phoronix Xen vs KVM vs Virtualbox benchmark with
	Ubuntu 11.10
Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:57:14 +0900
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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.