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RE: [Xen-users] best guest disk performance?

To: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] best guest disk performance?
From: "JHJE (Jan Holst Jensen)" <jhje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:33:00 +0100
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> > I'd say Para-Virtual drivers are a must for good HVM disk 
> > performance.

> it's also strange that VMWare's drivers for virtual machines 
> include mostly 
> video, mouse and such; i think there's no mass storage drivers

In fact VMware GSX _does_ have special SCSI drivers, at least for
Windows. I can't recall that I have seen special storage drivers for
Linux on GSX, but I am fairly certain that they do have for VMware ESX.

Cheers
-- Jan Holst Jensen, Novo Nordisk A/S, Denmark

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