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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... It reads as if there's a 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? Maybe Intel Quad Core and the forthcoming 2.6.20
change the balance. Can anyone shed any light with experiences and
recommendations?<br>
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Thanks.<br>
Daniel.