cloud-ioperf-write QEMU testing on CentOS 6.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. write io performance: Processor: QEMU Virtual @ 2.10GHz (6 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB RAM, Disk: 9GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS 6.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU IOzone 3.347 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better write io performance . 522.11 |================================================