Ubuntu 14.04 On Amazon EC2: Xen PV vs. HVM

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A common benchmark request at Phoronix lately has been to compare the Xen PV (para-virtualization) performance to Xen HVM (Hardware-assisted virtualization). Well, now that Ubuntu 14.04 LTS has been released, here’s some benchmarks from within Amazon’s EC2 compute cloud when comparing Ubuntu 14.04 Server PV and HVM instances.

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