exploits , vulnerabilities , articles , Hardware Virtualization Slower Than Software?
| 2006-08-13 |
Hardware Virtualization Slower Than Software? |
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"[...] 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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