[Fedora-xen] kernel-xen, qemu, kvm etc summary and speed of virtual machines in F8

[Xavier Toth]

I'm interested in this too as the F8 vm I'm running on an F8 host
seems pretty slow. Also right now I'm using qemu does xen perform
better? Is there any place I can read about the tradeoff between
approaches?

On Jan 21, 2008 11:12 PM, Phil Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
> People,
>
> Is there available a plain summary of how all the different bits of
> virtualisation fit together?  The stuff I have found so far is more
> confusing than anything . .
>
> I have been toying around with virtual machines on FC6, F7 and now F8
> but there seems to have been a big slow-down in performance with F8?
>
> This speed issue is why I have been trying to get a better understanding
> of how all the bits fit together, see where the bottlenecks are and what
> I can do to improve performance so that I might use the virtual machines
> for real work.
>
> I have installed:
>
> kernel-xen-2.6.21-2952.fc8
> xen-libs-3.1.2-1.fc8
> xen-3.1.2-1.fc8
> qemu-0.9.0-5.fc8
> kvm-36-7.fc8
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil.
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