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RiceKills

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Registered: 2010-05-31

Posts: 72

fastest virtualization solution?

Hey guys, Im pretty new to whole virtualization thing. I have been using virtual box for sometime now but I was wondering if there was something faster. I know that kvm and qemu are much faster than virtual box for reasons I don't really understand and I was wondering what was the fastest virtualization solution out there. From what I understand xen is the fastest one but requires guest modification. How does that work? how does this compare to kvm? Whats the second fastest after xen?

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,358

Re: fastest virtualization solution?

Google is your friend. There's tons of comparisons between virtualization methods. I'd suggest starting with the features comparison (wikipedia has one I believe).

Once you've done your initial search then you will be able to ask a better, less general question. Till then, I'll close this thread.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: fastest virtualization solution?

I will just add that you also want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-a … ualization and understand what paravirtualization is.