RE: [Xen-users] Disk performance under Xen

[Gavin Conway <gavin.conway@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  Why do you need HVM guest? HVM, aka fully virtualized guests use Qemu
>  to _emulate_ IDE (or SCSI) adapters and disks, so that'll be slow.
>
>  If you can't switch to paravirtual (PV) guests, at least try to
>  install
>  PV-on-HVM drivers, which should help a lot. Other possibility is to
>  use
>  stubdoms with HVM, but that's not available in Xen shipped in CentOS
>  5.3.
>  Stubdoms can be found from Xen 3.4.x
>
>  PV guests will be a lot faster, since there's no need for emulation.
>  I recommend you to run PV guests.

Hi Pasi,

We get the same performance under windows but comparing the difference between 
the two it's easier to demonstrate with 2 x Linux systems. With regards to why 
we use HVM, this is so we can do P2V migrations of various OS' into Xen.

Could you link me to the PV-on-HVM drivers for Linux, these sound like a good 
way forward. Also Stubdoms are a new one on me, do you know of any recommended 
reading. Googling draws up a blank apart from problems people have had.


Thanks
Gavin


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