People on this list have expressed opinions before regarding Xen vs. VMware and full/paravirtualization before. I picked up a small test machine to evaluate some new stuff and this was on my list.
I had some surprising findings and I'm not sure if they were normal or I have missed the boat on something. Do people find Xen typically perform poorer on full virtualization than VMware 2 (my findings)? Or am I just noob enough to have missed something on the learning curve? Does Xen's performance on paraviruatlized linux clients outstrip it's deficiencies in full virtualization or is the main drawing card that it can access PCI devices within a VM? Objective opinions really welcomed! - dbc.
