On Oct 6, 2008, at 16:03 , Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Oct 04, 2008 10:33 -0500, Daniel Ferber wrote: >> I have two questions: >> >> 1. On the OSS/OST side, can one run Lustre as a server on a system >> running a >> Xen kernel? >> >> 2. Conversely: is the lustre client compatible with Xen kernel >> machines? > > Note that "work" and "perform well" are two completely different > issues. > While CPU virtualization is quite efficient these days, IO > virtualization > is not necessarily very fast at all. > > I haven't benchmarked IO on Xen in a long time, but I'd expect a pretty reasonable percentage of native IO at this point. Not quite as efficient as cpu virtualization, of course, but I wouldn't necessarily say not very fast either. robert _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss