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I agree with the parts about para-virt native performance, but I COMPLETELY disagree with Hyper-V for performance and stability of Windows guests. I run Windows guests on my Xen 3.2.1 host (SLES10 SP2) with very good performance and no stability problems at all. Furthermore, Server 2008 is supposed to have built-in paravirtualization support that works on Hyper-V or Xen. I recommend Xen for Linux, Windows, Solaris, and BSD virtualization - VMware ESX(i) is my second choice. Don't mean to be a Microsoft basher...
-Nick
>>> "Venefax" <venefax@xxxxxxxxx> 2009/02/26 16:46 >>>
It is exactly opposite. Para-virtualization is near-native performance. Use
full-virtualization only to mix windows and Linux in the same hardware. But
rest assured that Hyper-V R2 achieves 2 times the performance and stability
compared to KVm and Xen full-virt. I tested them all in real-life scenarios.
My advice is: use Xen 3.3 for any Linux domus and only paravirtualized. And
use Microsoft Hyper-v for windows on windows virtualization.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mauro [mailto:mrsanna1@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 6:40 PM
To: Venefax
Cc: jonr@xxxxxxxxxx; xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] I want to know if.....
2009/2/27 Venefax <venefax@xxxxxxxxx>:
> It is not true at all. KVM and Xen are fundamentally different and address
> different problems. Xen allows for fast para-virtualization of Linux
Domus,
> while KVM only fully-virtualizes. Nobody in his right mind would use KVM
for
> a linux DOMu, because it would lose 75% of its performance, compared to
> para-virtualization. So KVM is for windows on Xen, but it will never
replace
> Xen in the datacenter.
> Federico
Sorry for my ignorance but...can you explain?
I think pure virtualization gains more in performances vs para
virtualization.
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