raw-apache Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx testing with a QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996) and Cirrus Logic GD 5446 on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. raw-apache: Processor: Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx @ 2.13GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 489MB, Disk: 9GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 qcow2-apache: Processor: Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx @ 2.13GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 489MB, Disk: 19GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better raw-apache ... 3127.78 |======================================================= qcow2-apache . 3065.35 |======================================================