<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/9 Richard Jones <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rich@annexia.org">rich@annexia.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:50:28AM +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:<br>
> Some of them use more so called "hardware acceleration" such as Intel<br>
> VT or AMD-V.<br>
> It has been shown that using hardware acceleration can actually slow<br>
> some applications down when compared with software emulation,<br>
> particularly with the intel vt and amd-v hardware instructions.<br>
> Example applications are ones that use a lot of malloc/free calls.<br>
> intel-vt and amd-v can slow these applications down quite a lot.<br>
<br></div></blockquote><div><br>In the case of using hardware acceleration for OS that cannot be para-virtualised, is KVM considered<br>faster than Xen on HVM mode?<br><br>I tested KVM while running various instances of debian lenny and although I find it easier to deal with (configuration and such)<br>
I notice it slower than Xen.<br><br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
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<div class="im"><br>
> Para-virtualisation uses a good approach by instead of having to<br>
> emulate actual devices, it provides a special device driver for the<br>
> guest that improves performance when talking to devices. Emulating<br>
> actual devices leads to performance issues due to the double buffering<br>
> etc. required. Para-virtualisation can help considerably for<br>
> applications that use a lot of device io.<br>
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</div>Paravirtualization is more than just devices. This paper explains<br>
Xen's approach to paravirtualization RAM and devices:<br>
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<a href="http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xensosp.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/papers/2003-xensosp.pdf</a><br>
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Rich.<br>
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Richard Jones<br>
Red Hat<br>
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