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Re: [Xen-devel] Phoronix Xen vs KVM vs Virtualbox benchmark with Ubuntu 11.10



On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 07:31 -0400, Mark Dokter wrote:
> In that test, the KVM machine uses virtio disk and nic devices, while
> the Xen machine uses the qemu emulated devices. Could that be the cause
> for the poor performance?

Very much so. Without using the PVHVM drivers in the Xen case this is
very much an apples to oranges comparison.

Ian.


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