* Hardware Virtualization Slower Than Software?
posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 13th Aug 2006 18:18 UTC
Icon"[...] a new white paper by VMWare that comes to the surprising conclusion that hardware-assisted x86 virtualization oftentimes fails to outperform software-assisted virtualization. My reading of the paper says that this counterintuitive result is often due to the fact that hardware-assisted virtualization relies on expensive traps to catch privileged instructions while software-assisted virtualization uses inexpensive software substitutions." Read more at Slashdot.
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