I'm curious to hear about people's experiences/opinions with VMware and KVM on 
VCL. Up to this point, we have been using the free version of VMware ESXi, but 
I've done some testing with KVM, and it seems to work well also.

It looks like the two will co-exist well, as KVM successfully converts the vmdk 
images to qcow2 format on the fly, and will even convert new images created on 
KVM back to vmdk format if the repository is defined as vmdk format.

So I'm toying with the idea of migrating away from VMware and going to KVM, and 
wanted to hear about others experiences if they've done the same, or can 
compare performance between the two hypervisors. Also, if you are using KVM, 
what OS are you running it on. The testing I did was with KVM running on Fedora 
16.

Thanks,
Mike


Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS - Research Computing Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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