VM Comparison
Virtualization Comparison


Ubuntu Server 12.04 native: 

	Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5440 @ 2.83GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0TT740, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 8 x 2048 MB DDR2-667MHz, Disk: 1000GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: AMD ATI ES1000 128MB, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-37-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Flexible IO Tester 1.57
Test: Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern
Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 2587.48 |=========================================


SQLite 3.7.3
Test Target: Default Test Directory
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 11.20 |===========================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 133.67 |==========================================


FS-Mark 3.3
Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync
Files/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 942.37 |==========================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Read
Final Score > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 341433 |==========================================


hdparm Timed Disk Reads
Disk To Read: /dev/sda
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 123.96 |==========================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 32GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 139.17 |==========================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 127.77 |==========================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64kB - File Size: 32GB - Disk Test: Read Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 139.88 |==========================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64kB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 127.84 |==========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Sequential Read - Size Per Thread: 1.024 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 64 k Block Size - Total 32 GB
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 92.44 |===========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 128 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 4 k Block Size - Total 4 GB
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 4241.11 |=========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 2 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 4 k Block Size - Total 64 MB
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 841.12 |==========================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64 MB - Thread Count: 16 - 4 k Block Size - Total 1 GB
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 7.35 |============================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Sequential Write - Size Per Thread: 128 MB - Thread Count: 32 - 4 k Block Size - Total 4 GB
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 127.81 |==========================================


Compile Bench 0.6
Test: Compile
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 355.05 |==========================================


PostMark 1.51
NetApp Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 2442 |============================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 5178.86 |=========================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 5159.18 |=========================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 4986.89 |=========================================


RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0
Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 5328.31 |=========================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 3626.95 |=========================================


Timed MrBayes Analysis 3.1.2
Primate Phylogeny Analysis
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 23.65 |===========================================


CacheBench
Test: Read
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 2394.57 |=========================================


CacheBench
Test: Read / Modify / Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 14219.51 |========================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 86.15 |===========================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 6.67 |============================================


Gzip Compression
2GB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 15.85 |===========================================


FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1
WAV To FLAC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 10.30 |===========================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 23.37 |===========================================


GnuPG 1.4.10
1GB File Encryption
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 12.16 |===========================================


Mencoder 1.1
AVI To LAVC
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 37.40 |===========================================


System BZIP2 Decompression
Phoronix Test Suite v4.2.0
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 13.09 |===========================================


System GZIP Decompression
Phoronix Test Suite v4.2.0
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 4.51 |============================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1c
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 61.50 |===========================================


System ZLIB Decompression 1.2.7
Phoronix Test Suite v4.2.0
ms < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 3069.85 |=========================================


PyBench 2008-08-14
Python Benchmark Suite
Milliseconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 2940 |============================================


NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 14893.89 |========================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.3
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 14925.73 |========================================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 60673 |===========================================


Cyclictest 0.84
Test Case: POSIX Timer, Interval 500 ms, 100000 Loops
ms Average < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 7 |===============================================


Cyclictest 0.84
Test Case: POSIX Timer, Interval 10000 ms, 10000 Loops
ms Average < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 10 |==============================================


Cyclictest 0.84
Test Case: clock_nanosleep TIME_ABSTIME, Interval 500 ms, 100000 Loops
ms Average < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 6 |===============================================


Cyclictest 0.84
Test Case: clock_nanosleep TIME_ABSTIME, Interval 10000 ms, 10000 Loops
ms Average < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 8 |===============================================


BlogBench 1.0
Test: Write
Final Score > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu Server 12.04 native . 3563 |============================================