Virtualization has gained astonishing popularity in recent decades. It is applied in several application domains, including mainframes, personal computers, data centers, and embedded systems. While the benefits of virtualization are no longer to be demonstrated, it often comes at the price of performance degradation compared to native execution. In this work, we conduct a comparative study on the performance outcome of VMWare, KVM, and Docker against compute-intensive, IO-intensive, and system benchmarks. The experiments reveal that containers are the way-to-go for the fast execution of applications. It also shows that VMWare and KVM perform similarly on most of the benchmarks.

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虚拟化系统的性能探索

在最近的几十年中，虚拟化已获得了惊人的普及。它被应用于多个应用领域，包括大型机，个人计算机，数据中心和嵌入式系统。尽管虚拟化的优势不再得到证实，但与本地执行相比，虚拟化通常以性能下降为代价。在这项工作中，我们根据计算密集型，IO密集型和系统基准对VMWare，KVM和Docker的性能结果进行了比较研究。实验表明，容器是快速执行应用程序的必经之路。它还显示VMWare和KVM在大多数基准测试中的性能相似。