Sharma, Manjul2021-04-282021-04-282021-04-28https://hdl.handle.net/11299/219510Cloud computing has grown in popularity and has become a go to solution for the computing needs of people and businesses. This introduces virtual machines to a variety of increased workloads and understanding their workloads is important inorder to optimize performance and power consumption. In this research we test the performance of Virtual Machines like VMware and KVM by stress testing based on CPU performance, I/O intensive workload and Network stress. Data is individually collected from both these Virtual Machines and analyzed to find patterns and understand the performance of these machines in relation to each other.enUniversity of Minnesota DuluthUndergraduate Research Opportunities ProgramVirtual MachineVM workloadVM stress testVM analysisVM CPU stressVM I/O StressVM Network StressSwenson College of Science and EngineeringDepartment of Computer ScienceReport