Re: [Xen-devel] A Performance Comparison of Hypervisors

["Nicholas Lee" <emptysands@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/4/07, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I wonder why you say this.  I thought the benchmark was done very well.
> What we need is more benchmarking, not less.  Unfortunately, VMware
> makes publishing benchmarks difficult as you have to get their approval.
...

> [1] The PV drivers that come in XenEnterprise are, AFAIK, only for
> XenEnterprise.
The person who did the benchmark might have done a brilliant job, but
it reads like marketing pamphlet for VMware.  A good test show be
neutral. Show their best product against Xen's lowest offering is just
disrespectful.

As you say, the netperf test was silly, a good independent tester
wouldn't do something like that.

Vmware is very mature. I use both it and Xen and they both work well.
Xen certainly works better for some jobs than seems to be presented in
that report.


Nicholas

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