I spent a few days comparing various Hypervisors under the same workload and on the same hardware. This is a very specific workload and results might be different when testing oher workloads.

I wanted to share it here, because many of us run very modest Hardware and getting the most out of it is probably something others are interested in, too. I wanted to share it also because maybe someone finds a flaw in the configurations I ran, which might boost things up.

If you do not want to go to the post / read all of that, the very quick summary is, that XCP-ng was the quickest and KVM the slowest. There is also a summary at the bottom of the post with some graphs if that interests you. For everyone else who reads the whole post, I hope it gives some useful insights for your self-hosting endeavours.

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    3 days ago

    Kinda surprised to see XCP topping the charts, time to benchmark my server currently running Proxmox I guess.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      33 days ago

      It would be cool to see how linux centric workloads behave on those Hypervisors. Juuust in case you plan to invest some time into that ;-)