Location
https://www.kennesaw.edu/ccse/events/computing-showcase/fa25-cday-program.php
Document Type
Event
Start Date
24-11-2025 4:00 PM
Description
This project investigates the operating-system-level performance and isolation mechanism of Virtual Machines and Docker container. The experiment includes CPU/memory microbenchmarks, disk throughput tests, web-server latency measurements, multi-process scheduling stress and controlled security checks. We aim to quantify each benchmark under identical conditions. The study findings reveal that Docker consistently provides lower overhead and faster I/O due to its shared-kernel architecture, while VirtualBox maintains stronger isolation but introduces more scheduling and disk latency. The findings provide practical insights for the OS system designers to find better execution environments for security critical and performance-sensitive workloads.
Included in
GRP-0217 Comparative Analysis of OS-level Security Vulnerabilities and Isolation Mechanisms in Hypervisors and Containers
https://www.kennesaw.edu/ccse/events/computing-showcase/fa25-cday-program.php
This project investigates the operating-system-level performance and isolation mechanism of Virtual Machines and Docker container. The experiment includes CPU/memory microbenchmarks, disk throughput tests, web-server latency measurements, multi-process scheduling stress and controlled security checks. We aim to quantify each benchmark under identical conditions. The study findings reveal that Docker consistently provides lower overhead and faster I/O due to its shared-kernel architecture, while VirtualBox maintains stronger isolation but introduces more scheduling and disk latency. The findings provide practical insights for the OS system designers to find better execution environments for security critical and performance-sensitive workloads.