Virtual Machines and CentOS 5.0 [Linux]

[Matteo Concilio]

2008/6/24 Scott R. Ehrlich <scott at mit.edu>:
> What performance experiences have list members had with running virtual
> machines (VMWare Server, VMWare ESX, etc) versus running applications
> directly in the host OS?

Performances order may be something like this:
1) VMWare ESX
2) XEN paravirt
3) XEN full virt
4) VMWare server

There are lots of architectural differences between these solutions,
you should investigate.

VMWare ESX is a large enterprise class product, with benefits,
complexity and costs.


I use with satisfaction CentOS-5.1-x86_64 with XEN and many
paravirtualized CentOS-5.1-x86_64 machines and performances are very
good.

-- 
Matteo Concilio