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From: Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Xen benchmarks vs ESX (vmware)
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:20:28 -0800
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To: Niraj Tolia <ntolia@gmail.com>
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That is correct. If you look at the "art of virtualization" paper
there is an explicit comment to that effect.

           -Kip


On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:23:16 -0500, Niraj Tolia <ntolia@gmail.com> wrote:
> Fraser,
> 
> As far as I am aware of, the research community is forced to benchmark
> against Workstation 3.x because the EULA in later versions prevents
> anyone from publishing benchmarking numbers. Look at the Restrictions
> section in the EULA at <http://www.vmware.com/download/ws4_eula.html>
> for Workstation 4.x. I am sure its the same for ESX.
> 
> Niraj
> 
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:03:59 -0500, Fraser Campbell
> <fraser@georgetown.wehave.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone benchmarked xen against vmware's ESX server?  I see the benchmarks
> > against vmware workstation but I expect ESX would do significantly better.
> >
> > Thanks
> > P.S. Any plans for a xen-user list, or is this an appropriate spot for my
> > question?
> > --
> > Fraser Campbell <fraser@wehave.net>                 http://www.wehave.net/
> > Georgetown, Ontario, Canada                               Debian GNU/Linux
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