Baremetal vs Xen vs Hyper-V Compare
Intel Xeon E5606 testing with a Microsoft Virtual Machine and Microsoft 5353 on CentOS 5.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.11GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Microsoft Virtual Machine, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB, Disk: 35GB, Graphics: Microsoft 5353

	OS: CentOS 5.4, Kernel: 2.6.18-164.el5 (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext3


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 6830.31 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7386.22 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 6888.72 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7380.31 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 8098.78 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 8312.85 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 8050.17 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 8341.49 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7456.02 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7805.34 |============================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7008.14 |============================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Scale
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 6807.43 |============================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Add
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7549.16 |============================================


Stream 2009-04-11
Type: Triad
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 7714.83 |============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 56.11 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 982.69 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 61.57 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 180.64 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 61.99 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 106.65 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 62.29 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 107.51 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 63.16 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 1563.93 |============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 66.52 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 183.52 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 67.09 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 107.31 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 67.38 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 108.11 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 63.29 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 1622.18 |============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 67.00 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 182.30 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 67.04 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 105.12 |=============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 67.32 |==============================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 106.37 |=============================================


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 19.00 |==============================================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 2683 |===============================================


John The Ripper 1.7.9
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 1734667 |============================================


Apache Benchmark 2.2.21
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 4032.41 |============================================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 29254 |==============================================


Loopback TCP Network Performance
Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Hyper-VCentOS 5.4 32bit . 140.40 |=============================================