-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 14/10/2015 4:20 PM, Russell Coker wrote:
Has KVM improved a lot recently? How can anything be so much better than Xen when Xen has been so close to native performance for so long?
I've just chosen KVM for a new Linode instance. They allow me to choose Xen but say that KVM is the way of the future - presumably I would be forced to use KVM sooner or later so it seemed easier to use it now.
I was using just Xen, but a machine I needed to use never worked with Xen so I moved that to KVM -- I've still another using Xen, but others are using KVM. I too think that KVM is the future, just like BTRFS ... only KVM is in my current life. Now, I haven't done any specific testing and I'm unlikely to, but I was of the opinion that both Xen and KVM were fairly comparable. Perhaps it is a two horse race and each pulls ahead for a period as the other catches up and takes the lead once more. For mine, both work, both should be fine. If you must have best performance, then best you test with your use case. Kind Regards AndrewM -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlYd6v8ACgkQqBZry7fv4vsR3AD+J2rQx/LLcINKWPskFUCzGZOZ 4nhwK5iG4lo92T7X8FQBAKMYZaAs7zrbjnUCBJ66ZzYhhIrtxesnQkLc9h1MFiya =986i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----