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From: Gordan Bobic <gordan@bobich.net>
Subject: virtio disk slower than IDE?
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:23:21 +0000
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I just tried paravirtualized virtio block devices, and my tests show 
that they are approximately 30% slower than emulated IDE devices. I'm 
guessing this isn't normal. Is this a known issue or am I likely to have 
mosconfigured something? I'm using 64-bit RHEL/CentOS 5 (both host and 
guest).

Thanks.

Gordan