Macmini 2012 vm2, 8 vcpu, 6G memory, XFS 8 x Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) testing with a QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. vm2: Processor: 8 x Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 6144 MB RAM, Disk: 252GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 22, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic (x86_64), File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better vm2 . 46.39 |================================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.9.0 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better vm2 . 74.25 |================================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better vm2 . 158.70 |================================================================= Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better vm2 . 61.92 |================================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better vm2 . 39.91 |==================================================================