Are Two Virtualized Halves of a Nehalem Box as Good as the Whole Thing?
Depends on the OS, Apparently
Curious about the impact of virtualization on benchmarking results? Jan Brosowski blogged in SAPonSun about testing two “half-box” virtual machines on the same box. He discovered a striking difference.
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