thuban-3-core-2vm-2 VMware testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2x3Core VMs simultaneously: Processor: 3 x AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.21GHz (3 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 17GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: VMware VMXNET3 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-39-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1176x885, System Layer: VMware 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 2x3Core VMs simultaneously . 4956 |============================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x3Core VMs simultaneously . 19.96 |=========================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x3Core VMs simultaneously . 21.18 |=========================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2x3Core VMs simultaneously . 173.07 |==========================================