virtualization benchmark suites

Hi folks, I spoke with several financial customers interested in KVM earlier this week and two topics we discussed were KVM benchmarking and the oVirt community. Two of the customers suggested that we contribute benchmarking suites to oVirt as projects, and that we form a benchmarking community under oVirt. IBM has successfully contributed a benchmark called DayTrader to the Apache foundation and formed a community around that benchmark, which tests middleware using transaction and networking workloads. I'm not proposing DayTrader. But IBM does have some distributed benchmarks that may be interesting to the community. And others of you probably also have similar test suites. What is the group's feeling about benchmarking projects? If there's interest I'll pursue things on our end (no promises). But I think this is good feedback from our customers and am interested to hear comments on the idea. Thanks, Mike Mike Day IBM Distinguished Engineer Chief Virtualization Architect, Open Systems Development Cell: +1 919 371-8786 | mdday(a)us.ibm.com http://code.ncultra.org