One thing that I think probably needs to be modified for our needs is a
Dom0
controller to run various tests in each DomU simultaneously then collate
the
date. Virtual worlds are more complex than non-virtual ones. Sometimes
something
runs great in on VM but drags when multiple VMs are being used.
I was also going to mention that we should look at scalability and performance isolation. Some references and previous studies here:
http://todddeshane.net/research/Xen_versus_KVM_20080623.pdf http://clarkson.edu/~jnm/publications/isolation_ExpCS_FINALSUBMISSION.pdfhttp://clarkson.edu/%7Ejnm/publications/isolation_ExpCS_FINALSUBMISSION.pdf http://clarkson.edu/~jnm/publications/freenix04-clark.pdfhttp://clarkson.edu/%7Ejnm/publications/freenix04-clark.pdf
Also, is there anybody that has access to or would be able to get access to run SPECvirt? http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/
Thanks, Todd
So you've already done a lot of this then Todd? Should we just be making a standardized test out of your work?
Grant McWilliams
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