KVM KVM testing on Fedora 21 via the Phoronix Test Suite. KVM: Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 21GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: Fedora 21, Kernel: 3.18.7-200.fc21.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.14.3, Display Server: X Server 1.16.3, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.4.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2 20150212, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200, System Layer: KVM x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better KVM . 37.41 |================================================================== Monkey Audio Encoding 3.99u4b5s6 WAV To APE Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM . 5.99 |=================================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM . 7.25 |=================================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM . 13.63 |================================================================== WavPack Audio Encoding 4.41.0 WAV To WavPack Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM . 9.93 |=================================================================== FFmpeg 2.1.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM . 27.59 |================================================================== Mencoder 1.1 AVI To LAVC Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM . 22.08 |==================================================================