Hello Plug,<br>
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To paraphrase Linux Format Mag Oct 2006 report on their tests<br>
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average speed of the Intel chip running a Xen 43.7% of native,
VMWare 45.5% of native, AMD 63.6% for Xen and 73% for
VMWare. Later ~ while VT and SVM solve the same problem they work
quite differently: AMD64 chips have an integrated memory
controller, whereas the Intel chip keeps this on the north bridge. In
practice, this means the Intel chips have to virtualise the memory
controller in software, whereas AMD can do this in hardware, making the
potential for a virtualization speed boost even greater.<br>
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I wonder if despite what reads to be an apparent hardware architecture
advantage to AMD when it comes to virtualization - is the choice as
straight forward as that when it comes to bang for buck and long term
actual use? Can anyone shed any light on that?<br>
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Thanks<br>
Daniel.<br>