From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Fjellstrom Subject: Re: Recent kvm and vmware server comparisons? Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:55:12 -0700 Message-ID: <200902192255.12695.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> References: <200902101919.06778.tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> <7B7881568CF40E4388B615CD06F87B98098AE1@clara.maurer-it.com> <499D96B8.6040508@xs4all.nl> Reply-To: tfjellstrom@shaw.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE To: kvm@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca ([24.71.223.10]:38165 "EHLO idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751430AbZBTFzO convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:55:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <499D96B8.6040508@xs4all.nl> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 19 February 2009, Hans de Bruin wrote: > Martin Maurer wrote: > >> I suppose no-one has any? > > > > VMware includes in its EULA (End User License Agreement) a prohibit= ion > > for any licensee to publish benchmark results without VMware's appr= oval. > > (see https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/eula.php) > > > > Maybe this is a reason why all published VMWare benchmarks looks qu= ite > > similar :-) > > > > I would love to see a comparison but due to this restrictions it=B4= s hard > > to get independent results. > > Why compare kvm to vmware and not to real hardware? The results can t= han > be compared to vmware/hardware and hyper-v/hardware. hyper-v doesn't provide network or disk io ;) --=20 Thomas Fjellstrom tfjellstrom@shaw.ca