05.23.07
Tuning VMWare Workstation
There is a new document up on vmware’s site on how to tune performance in VMware Workstation 6.0.
http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/2007/05/getting_the_bes.html
I found the document to be helpful and informative, with a large amount of information to digest. Workstation 6.0 was a fairly big update, and this doc answered some questions for me on how to get the maximum performance out of the software.
Not much going on in Virtualization right now. KVM is in the stable Linux kernel, and people are not talking much about it from what I can see. Not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. I did some reading today about performance and it turns out Xen is still kicking KVM’s ass on that front… This will be interesting to see unfold in the next 6-12 months. Personally I don’t like either solution as much as VMware but then I have access to all this cool hardware specifically engineered to work with VMware.
I’ll come up with something to write about in the next day or two, but for now just wanted to point out this great document I found.