Re: Recent kvm and vmware server comparisons?

[Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca>]

On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> 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?

I suppose no-one has any?

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Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom@shaw.ca