[Qemu-devel] Re: Comparing New Image Formats: FVD vs. QED

[Chunqiang Tang]

> Chunqiang Tang/Watson/IBM wrote on 01/28/2011 05:13:27 PM:
> As you requested, I set up a wiki page for FVD at 
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/FVD
> . It includes a summary of FVD, a detailed specification of FVD, and a 
> comparison of the design and performance of FVD and QED. 

> See the figure at http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/FVD/Compare . This 
figure 
> shows that the file creation throughput of NetApp's PostMark benchmark 
under 
> FVD is 74.9% to 215% higher than that under QED.

Hi Anthony,

Please let me know if more information is needed. I would appreciate your 
feedback and advice on the best way to proceed with FVD. 

BTW, I recently added QCOW2 into the performance comparison figure on 
wiki.

Regards,
ChunQiang (CQ) Tang
Homepage: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/c/ctang