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Re: [Xen-users] Paravirtualized vs HVM - how big is the performance gap?

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Paravirtualized vs HVM - how big is the performance gap?
From: Tim Edwards <tedwards@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:12:46 +0100
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Ferreira, N. L. (Nuno) wrote:
> Ok.
> So go for a SL 4.7 installation, unless you really need the 4.3 one.
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> N.
> 
> P.S. It is from experience (and talknig with some sysadmins) that you
> are better off putting a dom0 with a SL OS. Go for a centOS, fedora or
> RHEL based one, and then build your SL machines on top.

Unfortunately I've found out that I can't - we need to run certain
custom software that's only certified and supported on SL 4.3. I'm going
to try copying the images/xen/ directory from 4.5 (the earliest version
that has that) into my 4.3 tree.

Tim Edwards

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