Analyzing processing overhead of Type-0 hypervisor for cloud gaming

摘要

The recent advancement in hardware virtualization has allowed the possibility of Gaming as a Service cloud development. Though an ambitious and promising technology, the input latency and inability to provide decent payable frames per second have led to the failures of organization such as OnLive trying to provide cloud gaming. But with recent close to metal support of graphics API such as DirectX 12 and Vulkan and Sony is providing PS3 games via its PS Now service, cloud gaming seems to be back in the market. Still the hypervisor area is a major place where we haven't seen much improvement other than vSGA and vDGA. This research tries to analyze the various available Type-0 hypervisor in hope to find the most optimal option. The work proposes comparing three type-0 hypervisors namely KVM, Hyper-V and ESXi. The performance will be measured by various graphics benchmarking tools and the FPS in various current generation games. Various benchmarking tools are used to make a fair basis for comparison of the hypervisors.