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Re: [Xen-users] best guest disk performance?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] best guest disk performance?
From: Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:29:53 -0500
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On Thursday 21 December 2006 8:06 am, Petersson, Mats wrote:
> There's probably many variants that will make some small difference, but
> I'd say Para-Virtual drivers are a must for good HVM disk performance.
> Whether you then connect the virtual disk to a partition, LVM volume,
> file or otherwise will be of much more minor importance, because that's
> going to give you the 1.1x or 1.5x performance improvement, while the
> former probably delivers in the region of 3x performance boost.

strangely, this strong selling point isn't on XenSource's webpage.  at least, 
i haven't seen any numbers like that.

it's also strange that VMWare's drivers for virtual machines include mostly 
video, mouse and such; i think there's no mass storage drivers

-- 
Javier

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