Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux

Re:Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux by Nux on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @04:35PM (#11255904)

Had mediocre network performance and increased load with freebsd on VMs (kvm), while at the same time a linux one would saturate a whole link.

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Re:Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux by cyphar on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @05:16PM (#11256104)

Why are you trying to get network throughput on a VM? Of course it's going to be slow, but KVM probably has some passthrough optimisations for Linux guests.

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Re:Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux by nl on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @10:56PM (#11257308)

Because that's what software defined networking is (mostly) about. In the majority of cases it's used as a way to setup a network plane for virtualized hosts.

Edit: See for example why VMWare bought Nicira: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/23/vmware-buys-nicira-for-1-26...

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Re:Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux by cyphar on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:18AM (#11257753)

I'm not a BSD guy, but I can still see it's a little unfair to compare the network throughputs of Linux and *BSD as guest VMs on a Linux host running KVM. You aren't going to get good throughout in that case without hardware passthrough (even then it's still bad). End of story.

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Re:Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux by Nux on Thursday March 10, 2016 @02:42AM (#11257810)

I get your idea, but Kvm on linux is prolly the most deployed hypervisor in the world or will be soon. If it doesn't run well on it then it won't be used. End of story.

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Re:Microsoft will release a custom Debian Linux by nl on Thursday March 10, 2016 @05:49AM (#11258408)

Sure it's unfair. But it is the current state of software.

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