[Users] Xen hypervisor vs OpenVZ

C K Kashyap ckkashyap at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 12:40:33 EDT 2011


>
> I don't know, but I would consider the real competition to be between
> OpenVZ and libvirt/KVM - I don't think Xen is going anywhere in the long
> term.
>
> KVM supports the use of kernel-same-page-merging (KSM), which OpenVZ
> doesn't (yet?).  For some applications KSM can be a big win...
>
> We currently use/support both OpenVZ and kvm.
>
> Tim.
>
>
> Thanks Tim ... from a pure performance standpoint, I'd imagine that any
kind of emulation/virtualization would have an overhead which is more than
openvz . So, if the usecase does not involve running different kernels, then
openvz style partitioning of system resources would yield more performance.
I am looking for more evidence supporting that :)

Regards,
Kashyap
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