VMware Player 4.0 vs. KVM Linux Virtualization VMware 4.0 Player performance benchmarks under Linux with Ubuntu 11.10 guest and host virtualization compared to Linux KVM virtualization. Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0: Processor: Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.49GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 21GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: vmware 11.0.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: VMware Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0: Processor: QEMU Virtual 0.14.1 @ 2.49GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 17GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 20, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: cirrus 1.3.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU 0.14.1 Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0: Processor: Intel Core 870 @ 2.95GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 32GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 4.22.0, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: vmware 11.0.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: VMware Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 8756.52 |============================ Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 9323.29 |============================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 10698.66 |================================== Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 55.18 |===================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 53.26 |==================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 36.91 |========================= Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 151.11 |==================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 122.63 |============================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 70.03 |================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 261.17 |==================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 251.75 |=================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 137.36 |=================== Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 130.67 |==================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 122.53 |================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 67.66 |=================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 122.73 |================================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 132.61 |==================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 65.82 |================== CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup Speedup > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 2.40 |============================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 2.34 |============================ Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 3.16 |====================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 4562 |=================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 4705 |=================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 9342 |====================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 24.16 |===================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 24.03 |===================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 13.32 |==================== FFmpeg 0.8.7 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 21.57 |============================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 22.64 |=============================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 27.11 |===================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 113 |================================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 115 |================================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 135 |======================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 67 |================================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 68 |================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 81 |======================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 33 |============================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 33 |============================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 45 |======================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 84 |================================ Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 86 |================================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 103 |======================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 32 |============================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 33 |=============================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 43 |======================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 1226.57 |================================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 1252.28 |================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 1303.58 |=================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 31.32 |===================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 30.43 |==================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 18.75 |====================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 25.23 |===================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 24.54 |==================================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 24.93 |===================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 4314.50 |================ Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 4344.18 |================ Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 9290.12 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 935.91 |================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 948.13 |=================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 1774.30 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 70.74 |========================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 70.69 |========================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 103.72 |==================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 17.11 | Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 39.81 | Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 3939.01 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 0.87 | Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 2.49 |= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 84.85 |===================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 3088.38 |============== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 3142.88 |============== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 7700.30 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 2348.56 |===================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 2378.35 |===================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 3905.09 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 2247.62 |================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 2237.58 |================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 4443.95 |=================================== NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 13.84 |================ Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 14.17 |================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 31.48 |===================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 1046.06 |====================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 1218.84 |========================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 1673.60 |=================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 295 |=== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 500 |===== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 3571 |====================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 829 |======================================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 828 |======================================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 775 |==================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 285 |======================================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 285 |======================================= Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 186 |========================= SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 63.46 |===================================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 44.74 |========================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 36.77 |===================== VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 13.40 |======================= Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 11.61 |==================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 21.69 |===================================== x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Core i5 2520M: VMware Player 4.0 . 39.95 |==================== Core i5 2520M: Linux KVM 3.0 ..... 43.42 |===================== Core i7 870: VMware Player 4.0 ... 75.18 |=====================================