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A comment on An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and Linux Containers [pdf].

Re:An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and... by zdw on Thursday August 07, 2014 @09:58AM (#8147716)
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.

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Re:An Updated Performance Comparison of Virtual Machines and... by tachion on Thursday August 07, 2014 @10:11AM (#8147775)
I would love to see the comparision of these Linux hypervisors and BSD ones, like Jails and Bhyve...
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