Subject: Re: [vserver] Newbei's questions
From: Stephen Liu <satimis@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:18:44 +0800 (CST)


--- ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@aqueos.com> wrote:

> 
> > 1)
> > What will be the advantage in running Vserver compared to
> > Xen/VirtualBox/VMWare/etc.  IIRC on FAQ it mentiones Vserver taking
> > only Windows Guest.  The others can take Windows guest additional
> to
> > Linux/Unix guests.
> >   
> while i am far from a kernel guru i can tell you that light 
> virtualisation like linux vserver has a very small footprint and so
> the 
> vservers run as fast as on the real hardware. The cost is some % of 
> performances and as it use the real kernel network and disk drivers, 
> access are not slowed down. This has major advantage in the
> performance 
> part at least. You could read :
> 
> http://linux-vserver.org/Paper
> 
> to have a better insight on how this work :)
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cordialement,
> Ghislain

Thanks for your advice and URL


B.R.
Stephen L


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