Debian 7.6 Performance Various open-source benchmarks by the Phoronix Test Suite v5.2.1 (Khanino). Common KVM: Processor: 4 x Common KVM @ 2.60GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2 x 16384 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 31GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 7.6, Kernel: 3.2.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.7.2, File-System: ext4 LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Common KVM . 17.80 |=========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Common KVM . 9073.95 |=========================================================