Prof. Dr. Frank Bellosa, Joshua LeVasseur

Abstract:

The resurgence of system virtualization has provoked diverse virtualization techniques targeting different application workloads and requirements. However, a methodology to compare the performance of virtualization techniques at fine granularity has not yet been introduced. VMbench is a novel benchmarking suite that focusses on virtual machine environments. By applying the pre-virtualization approach for hypervisor interoperability, VMbench achieves hypervisor-neutral instrumentation of virtual machines at the instruction level. Measurements of different virtual machine configurations demonstrate how VMbench helps rate and predict virtual machine performance.

BibTex:

@diplomathesis{moeller07vmbenchmarking,
  author = {Kim-Thomas Moeller},
  title = {Virtual Machine Benchmarking},
  type = {Diploma Thesis},
  address = {System Architecture Group, University of Karlsruhe, Germany},
  month = apr # "~17",
  year = 2007,
  url = {http://i30www.ira.uka.de/teaching/theses/pasttheses/}
}