xen Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. processor-compress-gzip: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor processor-ffmpeg: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor processor-openssl: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor processor-povray: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor processor-c-ray: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor network-loopback: Processor: Intel Xeon W3520 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext3, System Layer: Xen 4.1.2 Hypervisor Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better processor-compress-gzip . 17.33 |============================================== FFmpeg 1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better processor-ffmpeg . 18.40 |===================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1c RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better processor-openssl . 59.23 |==================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better processor-povray . 1005 |====================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better processor-c-ray . 67.34 |====================================================== Loopback TCP Network Performance Time To Transfer 10GB Via Loopback Seconds < Lower Is Better network-loopback . 47.02 |=====================================================