From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Ayres Subject: Re: [Vserver] report comparing vserver w/ xen Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 12:27:02 -0400 Message-ID: <44578856.8040909@tektonic.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: vserver@list.linux-vserver.org Cc: Stephen Soltesz , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , "Marc E. Fiuczynski" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Marc, Since this is would also be important information to the Xen developers I have forwarded this over to the xen-devel mailing list. Thank you, Matt Ayres Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote: > Hello, > > The following URL is for a paper that we wrote on "Container-based Operating > System Virtualization: A Scalable, High-performance alternative to > Hypervisors." At the performance, scale, and isolation level it compares > vserver with xen. We chose vserver simply because we use it on 600+ servers > for PlanetLab (www.planet-lab.org). The comparison is primarily between > container-based OSes (like vserver, virtuozzo, openvz, etc.) with > hypervisor-based systems (like xen, vmware esx, etc.). > > http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mef/research/vserver/paper.pdf > > The paper is in draft form at the moment, but was submitted to the USENIX > Operating System Design and Implementation conference. We plan to make > updates to the paper periodically, especially to section 3. You'll see what > I mean when you read that. > > Please send feedback to both the list as well as to me directly (i.e., reply > all). > > Best regards, > Marc > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver