Subject: Re: performance: domU in disk image or netboot from dom0 ?
To: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/25/2006 22:21:38
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 09:31:14PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering what was better (regarding performance) between using
> disk images for domU and just "netbooting" them from dom0 ?

For performances, disk images should be faster than NFS.
But for things that are mostly read-only (like system binaries), the
performance in normal usage should not be much of an issue. 

I would keep a disk image for swap, at last.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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