Tag Archives: hypervisor

Apply VirtIO for KVM over KVM (Day 2)

Posted on 2011/01/31 by jeff

I talked w/ David Ke Zhu @ dev team and confirmed that VirtIO is a mandatory plugin driver to apply in order to improve the IO performance of disk + network. HSLT depends on this driver. (Thanks to David). Good … Continue reading →

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Hypervisor Brief Intro

Posted on 2010/06/21 by jeff

View of Avi Kivity By Irfan Habib, http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9764?page=0,1 … In many ways, VMware is a ground-breaking technology. VMware manages to fully virtualize the notoriously complex x86 architecture using software techniques only, and to achieve very good performance and stability. As a … Continue reading →

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Xen versus VMware

Posted on 2008/09/16 by jeff

Source: http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/… Author: Bernard Golden … Even though VMware and Xen both provide an enterprise-focused server virtualization product, Xen’s approach to implementing virtualization has made for some challenges. VMware bases its product on hardware emulation, in which VMware provides a … Continue reading →

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