From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: Recent kvm and vmware server comparisons? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:40:15 -0700 Message-ID: <200902180540.15737.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> References: <200902101919.06778.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Reply-To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]:28346 "EHLO idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803AbZBRMkR (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:40:17 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200902101919.06778.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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? -- Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@shaw.ca