city-hda-2gb QEMU Virtual 0.9.1 testing with a Red Hat KVM under CentOS 5.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. iozone: Processor: QEMU Virtual 0.9.1 @ 2.79GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM, Disk: 18GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: CentOS 5.6, Kernel: 2.6.18-238.12.1.el5 (x86_64), Display Driver: cirrus, Compiler: GCC 4.1.2, File-System: ext3 IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone . 533.81 |============================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone . 543.54 |============================================================== IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone . 624.79 |==============================================================