Subject: Re: performance: domU in disk image or netboot from dom0 ?
To: Lars-Johan Liman <liman@autonomica.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 04/28/2006 21:31:02
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 03:58:20PM +0200, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
> bouyer@antioche.eu.org:
> > 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.
> 
> OK. Additional question: is there a performance difference btw. disk
> images and "providing raw parititions as devices" to the domUs? If I
> have a spare disk and set aside a partition each for the root systems
> for my domUs - does that make a huge difference? (Probably not.)

No, I don't think it makes a noticable difference

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