Re: [Xen-users] adios to XEN

[Arpan Jindal <jindalarpan@xxxxxxxxx>]

as said i the vm's will be doing lot of IO operations, so as per my understanding full virtualization is recommended to get near native performance

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Monday 24 May 2010 11:47:33 Arpan Jindal wrote:
> well i was using RHEL 5.4 as base machine(dom0) and RHEL 5.2 as guest
> machine (domU)
>
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 3:15 PM, Bart Coninckx
<bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> > On Monday 24 May 2010 10:50:31 Arpan Jindal wrote:
> > > Hello All
> > >
> > > Finally after struggling for more than 3 weeks i have decided not us
> > > use XEN for virtualization. due to very very poor IO performance inside
> > > full virtualization.
> > >
> > > The VM's I was creating was intended for high volume of IO everyday.
> > >
> > > May be I was not able to configure it properly but i also did not get
> > > any way out to solve this issue.
> > >
> > > Note - The above comment is general and is based on my observation.
> >
> > Arpan,
> >
> > do you happen to have this problem with Windows guests?
> > I seem to get the impression that Xen (3.x) with Windows is not the best
> > of choices as far as performance is concerned. Am I wrong? Novell does
> > offer a (paied) driver pack to boost performance, maybe that's a decent
> > "plan B".
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
> > Bart
>

Any particular reason not use para-virt. ?

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