From: Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>
To: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Recent kvm and vmware server comparisons?
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:19:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200902101919.06778.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> (raw)
I've temporarily got vmware server running on my new "server", and intend to
migrate over to kvm as soon as possible, if it provides enough incentive
(extra performance, features). Currently I'm waiting for full iommu support in
the kernel, modules and userspace, and didn't plan to migrate till I had
hardware that could do iommu, kvm fully supported iommu + DMA for devices
"passed through", could also pass through more than one device per guest (I
saw hints that the intel iommu implementation can only do one device per
guest? please tell me I'm wrong, it seems like an odd design choice to make),
and full migration.
But if I can get enough performance over vmware server 2 with plain old kvm +
virtio, I'd happily migrate.
I saw a message late last year comparing the two, but I know how quickly
things change in the OSS world, and I also intend to use "raw" devices
(possibly AoE) for guest disks (not qcow or anything like it), and virtio for
networking.
So has anyone tested the two lately? Got any experiences you'd like to share?
--
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@shaw.ca
next reply other threads:[~2009-02-11 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 2:19 Thomas Fjellstrom [this message]
2009-02-18 12:40 ` Recent kvm and vmware server comparisons? Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-02-18 14:23 ` Martin Maurer
2009-02-19 0:15 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
2009-02-19 17:28 ` Hans de Bruin
2009-02-20 5:55 ` Thomas Fjellstrom
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