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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:04:19 +0200
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* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:

> On 09/22/09 11:02, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > obviously they are workload dependent - that's why numbers were 
> > posted in this thread with various workloads. Do you concur with 
> > those conclusions that they are generally a speedup over paravirt? 
> > If not, which are the workloads where paravirt offers significant 
> > speedup over hardware acceleration?
> 
> We're not in a position to do any useful measurements yet.

Sorry for being dense, but what does that mean precisely? No available 
hardware? Xen doesnt run?

	Ingo