On 10-11-12 09:57 AM, Todd Deshane wrote: >> I'd be happy to run some benchmarks. I've got some identical (if humble) >> machines... Would you want just a Xen vs. KVM? If so, what parameters or >> setup options would provide the best apples to apples comparison? >> >> The machines are; >> - quad core athlon II x4 >> - 4gb ddr3 >> - 1x 7200rom 500GB drive >> - Fedora 14, stripped (but identical) installs >> >> If these are too low end for useful results, let me know. Otherwise, >> I'll fire up Xen under Michael's 2.6.32-25-172 kernel with the stock >> 4.0.1 hypervisor on one machine, and can use the stock KVM/QEMU setup >> for another. >> >> Assuming all is fine, would it matter whether the VMs were F14 vs CentOS >> 5.5? >> >> I was thinking 3x runs each of; >> >> - bonnie++ >> - Recompile Michael's kernel >> - ?? Please make suggestions > > There is also an ongoing discussion about Xen vs. KVM performance on > the CentOS virt list > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2010-October/002074.html One thing I can say already, I've been unable to get Fedora 14 to start as a KVM VM with more than one CPU. I'm having to rework my test bed to use RHEL 6.0 now that it's out and hope that it solves the problem. :) -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer@xxxxxxxxxxx AN!Whitepapers: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org -- xen mailing list xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen
