ab VMware testing on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 21GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: AMD 79c970 OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-19-generic (i686), Desktop: LXDE 0.5.12, Display Server: X Server 1.13.3, Display Driver: vmware 12.0.2, OpenGL: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1), Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1600x900, System Layer: VMware Apache Benchmark 2.4.3 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better 1 . 3797.84 |==================================================================