Re: [libvirt-users] network-performance
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 02:33:28PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
On 2/1/2011 12:39 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>I'm just starting to take a look at guest networking performance and am
>a little disappointed. I'm comparing two setups:
>
>Host: Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V
>Host: CentOS 5.5 x86_64 kvm running libvirt
First thing is to stop unfairly comparing things that don't even
claim to do the same job. hyper-v is a hypervisor, while kvm is not,
xen is.
Hi Brian, I don't want to sound picky, but I did a quick search in the
KVM documentation and I couldn't find what category KVM is. I really
thought it was playing the same league as Xen.
That's from the KVM faq:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/FAQ#What_is_the_difference_between_KVM_and_...
Xen is an external hypervisor ...
On the other hand, KVM is part of Linux and uses the regular Linux
scheduler and memory ...
I just found this Linux Journal article:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9764
KVM is a unique hypervisor. ...