BHyVe - ESXi comparison

[Andrea Brancatelli]

That's a lot of interesting input.

Tomorrow we'll rearrange everything and redo all the testing.


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
>
>  unfortunately we've been a bit sloppy in tracking the time output
>> because initially it was just an internal test, thus we don't have the
>> details.
>>
>
>  No problems.
>
>
>  We're setting up a new round of tests we'll run tomorrow and we'll track
>> user/system/real in a more precise way; I will also publish a graph with
>> the three stacked piles.
>>
>
>  Thanks, that'd be great.
>
>  Some suggestions: if you're not already, I'd recommend using ahci-hd for
> disk images instead of virtio-blk. The AHCI emulation uses a thread for
> block i/o so won't block the VM on reads.
>  Also, I'd recommend using a network login to the guest rather than
> running something from the console. The UART emulation in bhyve will result
> in a lot of VM exits, which can impact performance.
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>
>


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