[Ilugc] kvm vs Xen vs virtio vs virtualbox vs VMWARE
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:40:24 +0530
To the best of my knowledge:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Ashish Verma <ilugid at gmail.com> wrote:
KVM*: This too is a desktop solution. Basically uses qemu to virtualize,
however, the qemu-kvm module is 100 times faster than just the qemu module.
Again not many features, but good solution.
Although KVM can be deployed both on a server class as well as
desktop class sytems, most deployments are on server class systems.
Some of the big companies are betting their revenue stream on
solutions based on KVM. Please visit the links in Rahul Sundaram's
post in this thread. To me they look like mission critical
deployments.
*Virtio*: I dont know.
This is the kernel driver to optimize disk and network I/O for KVM.
Comes native in Linux kernel. Therefore, for Linux Guest OS, one can
have virtual disks and the NICs, with virtio drivers; it works out of
the box. For Windows guest OS, you need to install the Windows virtio
drivers to be able to see the HDD devices (no personal experience
though).
-- Arun Khan
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