From: Mark Dokter <dokter@icg.tugraz.at>
To: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Phoronix Xen vs KVM vs Virtualbox benchmark with Ubuntu 11.10
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:31:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAFD891.8000204@icg.tugraz.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111031214036.GG12984@reaktio.net>
On 10/31/2011 10:40 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
>
Hi!
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1110_xenkvm&num=1
>
> Ubuntu 11.10 with Xen 4.1.1 and Linux 3.0.
>
I've read the article and was surprised.
> Xen seems to be doing very poorly on that benchmark.
> If someone has time to repeat that benchmark it would be good..
>
> Comparing the results to those from Stefano from XenSummit 2011 NA there has be something wrong..
> the results at XenSummit were pretty much the opposite compared to those by Phoronix.
>
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?
> -- Pasi
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-01 11:31 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 [this message]
2011-11-01 11:57 ` Ian Campbell
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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