[kwlug-disc] Virtualization technology

[William Park]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 11:05:53PM -0400, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
> But because all these VMs will be used mainly for testing
> functionality, and not running any real workload, having a low
> overhead overall is nice to have.

What CPU do you have?

I found that VMs are CPU-limited.  I installed and ran few distros on
/dev/shm/ (tmpfs) just to see.  It was faster than Raid5 disks, but not
the order of magnitude that I was expecting.
-- 
William