Re: [fedora-virt] [Fedora-xen] Benchmarking Xen and KVM

[Digimer]

On 10-11-12 09:57 AM, Todd Deshane wrote:
>  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 
There are some interesting ideas and insightful comments there. I am
tempted to abort my own benchmarking, as it seems others are doing the
same. I think I will proceed though, until and unless someone there
releases numbers first.

As I mentioned before, I've hit a snag with my in-progress benchmarks.
I've filed a bug but I doubt I will wait for resolution. I'll need a bit
more time now to setup a RHEL 6 based platform (host and guests). I'm
still hoping to get most done this weekend, but I make no promises. If
not, I'll aim for the weekend after to finish.

Cheers

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Follow-up - Re: [Fedora-xen] Benchmarking Xen and KVM

[Digimer]

On 11/12/2010 10:58 AM, Digimer wrote:
>  On 10-11-12 09:57 AM, Todd Deshane wrote:
> > 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
>
>  There are some interesting ideas and insightful comments there. I am
>  tempted to abort my own benchmarking, as it seems others are doing the
>  same. I think I will proceed though, until and unless someone there
>  releases numbers first.
>
>  As I mentioned before, I've hit a snag with my in-progress benchmarks.
>  I've filed a bug but I doubt I will wait for resolution. I'll need a bit
>  more time now to setup a RHEL 6 based platform (host and guests). I'm
>  still hoping to get most done this weekend, but I make no promises. If
>  not, I'll aim for the weekend after to finish.
>
>  Cheers 
I wanted to post a follow-up, as I had hoped to have results well before 
now.

I've been working on getting Xen 4.0, dom0 2.6.32 and DRBD 8 running on 
RHEL 6 as part of the cluster testing I want to do. I've *just* finished 
getting these RPMs rolled, thanks to the great work of Pasi and Boris.

I am now fairly pressed for time with the holidays coming, so I do not 
expect to have a chance to revisit the benchmarking until the new year. 
I won't bother giving a date, instead opting for "when it's done, I'll 
post it" statement.

Sorry for the delays. With luck, anyone interested should be able to 
duplicate the setup with a simple repo addition, if all goes well. :)

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