Bare metal
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 testing with a Supermicro X10SL7-F v0123456789 and ASPEED ASPEED Family on CentOS 6.4 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


Stock CentOS 6.4: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10SL7-F v0123456789, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection

	OS: CentOS 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 @ 3.40GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Supermicro X10SL7-F v0123456789, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 DRAM, Memory: 2 x 8192 MB DDR3-1600MHz, Disk: 2 x 1000GB Seagate ST1000NM0033-9ZM, Graphics: ASPEED ASPEED Family, Network: Intel I210 Gigabit Connection

	OS: CentOS 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4

KVM: 

	Processor: Intel Core @ 3.39GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM, Disk: 2GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: CentOS 6.4, Kernel: 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 5599 |======================================================
KVM .............. 3164 |===============================


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 . 24.00 |===============================================
KVM ................... 24.26 |================================================


Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2
Pfam Database Search
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3 . 12.53 |================================================


Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864
Multiple Sequence Alignment
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 5.70 |======================================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 26.58 |=====================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 1857.63 |===================================================
KVM .............. 1841.15 |===================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 41.79 |=====================================================
KVM .............. 42.11 |=====================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 83 |========================================================
KVM .............. 83 |========================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1c
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 144.87 |====================================================
KVM .............. 143.63 |====================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 7.87 |======================================================


PHPBench 0.8.1
PHP Benchmark Suite
Score > Higher Is Better
Stock CentOS 6.4 . 115734 |====================================================
KVM .............. 115360 |====================================================