virtualization benchmark suites

[Dor Laor]

On 09/23/2011 12:20 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 09/22/2011 04:11 PM, Itamar Heim wrote:
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org
>> [mailto:project-planning-bounces at ovirt.org] On Behalf Of Michael D
>>> Day
>>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 0:02 AM
>>> To: project-planning at ovirt.org
>>> Subject: 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.
>>
>> How would that differentiate from specvirt?
>
> specvirt is neither free as in beer nor free as in speech.  It's not
> something that a customer can easily obtain and play around with
> themselves.

Does such benchmark ever existed (apart from kernel build)? :)
As you pointed Anthony, let the ovirt project first focus on simplify 
the build process before we develop a competing benchmark suite to the 
one that we base lots of our marketing over.

Sorry spilling cold water, just one thing at a time.

>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori