• Download vbd

  wget -c https://github.com/truncs/vbd/zipball/master
  

• unzip

  unzip truncs-vbd-c7ca87f.zip
  

• Make

  cd vbd && make
  

• Smoke !

  sudo insmod vbd.ko
  

All benchmarking is done by using iozone3 on Xubuntu 11.10 with the following

$uname -a
Linux sanket-VirtualBox 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14 50:42 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

The following command was used to do all the benchmarking

$iozone -I -s 10K -r 1K

The -I argument indicates the filesytem to bypass the buffer cache and do all io operations directly on the disk