[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] Phoronix Xen vs KVM vs Virtualbox benchmark with Ubuntu 11.10
On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 08:57:14PM +0900, Ian Campbell wrote: > 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. > Actually the first page of the article says: "The only Xen issue encountered when testing it with an Ubuntu 11.10 guest and host was the need for manually loading the xen-blkfront driver for disk support." So it sounds like they actually did use PVHVM drivers.. -- Pasi _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel
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