On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 12:51 -0500, Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote: > > Interesting comment for this particular list. While I'm all in favor > of MS "seeing the light," so to speak, your comment on "... everything > else as a VM guest on top of a device-independent layer. At least I > hope we are going there." With everything so performance oriented in > our world, I just find this comment surprising. > At least on the interconnect side of things, VMs may not be a big performance drain. There is an IBM paper which measures Infiniband performance in native and Xen machines, and finds a few percentage loss in performance.
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