Tuesday, September 9, 2008

[THIN] Re: quick question on virtualization platforms

>Para-virtualization allows the VM direct access to the hardware thus
eliminating another layer. The closer you are to the hardware, the better
performance.

An advantage yes - but superior? There are OS requirements in this model
that don't exist in a fully virtualized environment, which, by the way, are
coming darn close to paravirtualized environments in terms of performance.
I think this is a trade-off rather than a mark of superiority.

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