Re: [Vserver] report comparing vserver w/ xen

From: Matt Ayres <matta_at_tektonic.net>
Date: Tue 02 May 2006 - 17:27:02 BST
Message-ID: <44578856.8040909@tektonic.net>

Marc,

Since this is would also be important information to the Xen developers
I have forwarded this over to the xen-devel mailing list.

Thank you,
Matt Ayres

Marc E. Fiuczynski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The following URL is for a paper that we wrote on "Container-based Operating
> System Virtualization: A Scalable, High-performance alternative to
> Hypervisors." At the performance, scale, and isolation level it compares
> vserver with xen. We chose vserver simply because we use it on 600+ servers
> for PlanetLab (www.planet-lab.org). The comparison is primarily between
> container-based OSes (like vserver, virtuozzo, openvz, etc.) with
> hypervisor-based systems (like xen, vmware esx, etc.).
>
> http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mef/research/vserver/paper.pdf
>
> The paper is in draft form at the moment, but was submitted to the USENIX
> Operating System Design and Implementation conference. We plan to make
> updates to the paper periodically, especially to section 3. You'll see what
> I mean when you read that.
>
> Please send feedback to both the list as well as to me directly (i.e., reply
> all).
>
> Best regards,
> Marc
>
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