[Xen-users] Questions Converting from ESXi to Xen

[Nic Swyer <nswyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

I currently have a dual processor (2x quad core xeons) with 16gb ram and a few hard disks. 

Being plagued with horrible performance of virtual machines (only running 2 vm's utilizing about 2gb ram usage and very very little processing). I just can't stand the fact that a single core machine with 1gb of ram will outperform my current setup i have on esxi. It takes about 15 seconds to load a static web page on any VM I create. So I can only assume its very poor disk performance, a horrible virtual network switch, or the hypervisor is just slow in telling the vm to use any of the 99% of free resources. (or all of the above).

So I've made the decision to buy another server and install Xen - converting the current VM's over. (I should have just went with Xen in the first place I think).

Anyways, I can't seem to find any articles or pages that relate to converting an ESXi VM to Xen. (All that I find is how to convert Xen to ESXi) - Which is a bit mind boggling because ESXi in my opinion is just horrible!

If anyone could help me find the information I'm looking for in converting a VM to Xen, that would be great.

And I would assume and hope to hear that disk i/o, resource allocation from hardware to vps, as well as installing distros from an image is at least several times faster.

Thanks for any help/advice and perhaps some comfort in knowing that I wont be wasting time/money converting from esxi to xen.


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