Re: Paravirtualization on VMware's Platform [VMI].

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Sep 22 2009 - 15:06:26 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 09/22/09 11:02, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > obviously they are workload dependent - that's why numbers were
> > posted in this thread with various workloads. Do you concur with
> > those conclusions that they are generally a speedup over paravirt?
> > If not, which are the workloads where paravirt offers significant
> > speedup over hardware acceleration?
>
> We're not in a position to do any useful measurements yet.

Sorry for being dense, but what does that mean precisely? No available
hardware? Xen doesnt run?

Ingo
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