[geeks] Virtual Machine Hosting

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> The CPU speed is usually not a problem, what will get you is disk access
>> of random reads/writes since the disks will be shared amongst all the 
>> VMs.
> 
> I can verify this.
> 
> The company I work for uses a Xen machine for Subversion.
> 
> Disk access is a severe problems any time you hit the logs, which is 
> pretty often with Subversion.
> 
> A lot of other apps suffer too.
> 
> Some places might have a solution for this, but several I've seen do not.

Panix doesn't yet, but they're about to start offering a "pay for a 
dedicated disk mirror in our RAID chassis" plan.

Peace...  Sridhar