virtualized worlds: Performance binary translations vs. paravirtualization

Friday, November 16, 2007

Performance binary translations vs. paravirtualization



Richard McDougall (former DE at Sun, now Chief Performance Architect @VMware) published a detailed article on performance in VMware's corporate blogs.

Interesting to find: "In a recent study, the performance of Oracle 10g R2 using the Swingbench online transaction processing workload on a paravirtualized Linux guest shows a moderate gain of 10% when using paravirtualized CPU interfaces."


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