Hi all, I've been toying around with a benchmark suite for virtualization, and I've just added kvm support. You can download the source tarball straight from the mercurial repo:
http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtbench/ http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtbench/?archive/tip.tar.bz2 README excerpt below. Feedback and patches welcome! Rusty. Virtbench - Simple Benchmarking for Virtualization http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtbench Virtbench is a set of (mainly micro-) benchmarks designed to assist coders optimize their hypervisors. Note that it won't tell you how well a virtualization solution will perform in a real world situation. Requirements: sudo /dev/net/tun: try "modprobe tun" The networks 192.168.19.0 and 192.168.12.0 free to be used. Quickstart: # Build the code and root filesystems (will use sudo) make # Set the guest kernel location and maybe more vi ./SETTINGS # Run the benchmark (local mode) sudo ./virtbench local # Run the benchmark (kvm mode) sudo ./virtbench kvm More information: (Note that virtbench is very much a work in progress) Virtbench spawns 4 virtual machines running the virtbench client, then runs various tests on them. It supports various backends, and you can create a new directory to add new ones (see below): - local (simply run each client as a normal process) - lguest - kvm - qemu Since most hypervisors require root privileges, virtbench is usually run as root. All benchmarks are measured as time taken to do some task, so smaller is better. Currently virtbench has 14 microbenchmarks and 4 inter-guest benchmarks, but you can write new ones (see below). Options which might be useful: --ifname=<if>: use an interface other than "eth0" to get server IP. --rough: don't run benchmarks as many times. --distribution: show distribution details for results. --csv=<file>: record complete results to file --help: usage and list of benchmark names [benchnames]: run this/these benchmarks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel