Re: [zones-discuss] Virtualization performance

2009-06-07 Thread Bill Walker
Peter Tribble wrote: One slight snag that I see occasionally now is that because it's so easy to load a system up with zones, it's relatively easy to build up a workload that overwhelms the host system for I/O and networking. You can consolidate more zones than heavyweight virtual machines on a

Re: [zones-discuss] Virtualization performance

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Tribble
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Henrik Johansson wrote: > Hi all, > > I read this blog posting, the author switched from VMWare to BSD Jails and > saw drastic performance increment. We known for long that Solaris zones > which are similar to Jails have very little overhead to other solutions, but >

[zones-discuss] Virtualization performance

2009-06-03 Thread Henrik Johansson
Hi all, I read this blog posting, the author switched from VMWare to BSD Jails and saw drastic performance increment. We known for long that Solaris zones which are similar to Jails have very little overhead to other solutions, but the trend seems to be towards VMWare as a magic fits- all