digitalocean5bucks QEMU 1.0 testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Run 1: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.40GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 512 MB RAM, Disk: 20GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 606.60 |=============================================================== IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 282.70 |=============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 932 |================================================================== Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 89.86 |================================================================ Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 36.27 |================================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 64 |=================================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 208.01 |=============================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 293.54 |=============================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 0.01 |================================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 22.80 |================================================================ FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Run 1 . 49.36 |================================================================ NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 8561.85 |============================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 4265.45 |============================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Run 1 . 60843 |================================================================