From owner-freebsd-virtualization@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 2 03:10:37 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE5A0760 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 03:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pd0-x22f.google.com (mail-pd0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A80451607 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2014 03:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f175.google.com with SMTP id w10so5692165pde.20 for ; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:10:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=0QG7Q7/S9Zv8uqxFcHRA1WDoJpXBlYhV/UMshUVWicI=; b=Dt9hhLNJrlzMELr9R8rNcH7MWZgt75WuzneWku5AJN29tYJyVviCHg2xIDL8NcsZri xxSkcwt7gP9AKEuK5ymAbF2WwGe62DHPEJJERCtogQ9j+kZu9q86g/etoseumabmNaEw NEWgur0gFzaZIXM/kMpYj1CmpScpCiN0VgxqoJCXSVOUQVb3yzDigTzrkFzXjei0uY2R rBkQ5NJbg0DOyC8Y8LnzTTgashDxeKIo1gFQHFJx/PoH5uhlGKvx+vpSD3wmdpB0or1q +afuyPnrr0H1tcVMFZupvmX0VGkcJNKGtkO+2TOOvN/3x9jOBBAu1xEf8I6/i66xJQud KxXw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.238.201 with SMTP id vm9mr29213432pbc.18.1391310637385; Sat, 01 Feb 2014 19:10:37 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.155.38 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Feb 2014 19:10:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 22:10:37 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: some interesting observations on the relative performance of kvm vs. bhyve From: Aryeh Friedman To: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 03:10:37 -0000 I have 1 host that dual boots FreeBSD and Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS and bhtyve seems to be atleast 3 or 4 times faster with disk I/O then kvm using the most stripped down command lines I can come up with. -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org