[fedora-virt] [Fedora-xen] Dom0 xen support in Fedora 15?

[Digimer]

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. :)

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