Ubuntu 11.10 KVM Performance1110090-AR-1110091AR22: A future article on Phoronix.com looking at the KVM guest performance of Ubuntu 11.10 and past Ubuntu Linux releases going back to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Both 32-bit and 64-bit guest performance is to be looked at. Host is the Lenovo ThinkPad W510 with KVM.
Systems Ubuntu 11.10 KVM Performance Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer 32-bit KVM 64-bit KVM Ubuntu 8.04 Ubuntu 8.10 Ubuntu 9.04 Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu 10.04 Ubuntu 10.10 Ubuntu 11.04 Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 11.10 Ubuntu 11.04 Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores) Bochs Qumranet 1002 2048MB 8GB Cirrus Logic GD 5446 Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio Qumranet 1000 Ubuntu 8.04 2.6.24-26-generic (i686) GNOME 2.22.3 X Server 1.4.0.90 cirrus 1.1.0 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2) GCC 4.2.4 ext3 800x600 Qumranet Device 1002 Qumranet Virtio device Ubuntu 8.10 2.6.27-7-generic (i686) GNOME 2.24.1 X Server 1.5.2 cirrus 1.2.1 2.1 Mesa 7.2 GCC 4.3.2 Pentium II @ 6.38GHz (4 Cores) Qumranet Virtio Ubuntu 9.04 2.6.28-11-generic (i686) GNOME 2.26.1 X Server 1.6.0 2.1 Mesa 7.4 GCC 4.3.3 Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores) Ubuntu 9.10 2.6.31-14-generic (i686) GNOME 2.28.1 X Server 1.6.4 cirrus 1.3.1 2.1 Mesa 7.6 GCC 4.4.1 ext4 1024x768 Ubuntu 10.04 2.6.32-33-generic (i686) GNOME 2.30.2 X Server 1.7.6 cirrus 1.3.2 GCC 4.4.3 Red Hat Virtio Red Hat Virtio device Ubuntu 10.10 2.6.35-22-generic (i686) GNOME 2.32.0 X Server 1.9.0 GCC 4.4.5 6GB Ubuntu 11.04 2.6.38-8-generic (i686) GNOME 2.32.1 X Server 1.10.1 GCC 4.5.2 Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-12-generic (i686) Unity 4.22.0 X Server 1.10.4 GCC 4.6.1 QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores) 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64) QEMU Ubuntu 11.04 2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64) GNOME 2.32.1 X Server 1.10.1 GCC 4.5.2 OpenBenchmarking.org
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.10 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04 32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04 FLAC Audio Encoding WAV To FLAC LAME MP3 Encoding WAV To MP3 Disk Tests PostMark Disk Transaction Performance SQLite Test Target: Default Test Directory Processor Tests 7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test C-Ray Total Time GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding John The Ripper Test: MD5 John The Ripper Test: Traditional DES John The Ripper Test: Blowfish OpenSSL RSA 4096-bit Performance Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples x264 H.264 Video Encoding System Tests Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving Percentile Rank; Data As Of 20 May 2013 For Trailing 200 Days OpenBenchmarking.org Performance Classification
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