test QEMU 1.0 testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. QEMU Virtual 1.0: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-44-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 disk_compaison: Processor: AMD Phenom 9550 @ 2.00GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: OpenStack Foundation Nova v2013.1.2, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-44-virtual (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better QEMU Virtual 1.0 . 4070 |========================================= disk_compaison ... 5403 |======================================================