On: An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machi...

[zdw]

A similar comparison of Solaris Zones (which, like FreeBSD Jails and similar existed before Docker but are comparable) to KVM and Xen:

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/01/11/virtualization-pe...

Basically, you take a fairly sizable I/O performance hit whenever you try to virtualize.

[tachion → zdw]

I would love to see the comparision of these Linux hypervisors and BSD ones, like Jails and Bhyve...