qcow2
VMware testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


2015-06-12 19:20: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 13GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware

2015-06-13 15:41: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 13GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware

QCOW2: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 13GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
2015-06-12 19:20 . 8270.31 |===================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2015-06-13 15:41 . 15.21 |=====================================================
QCOW2 ............ 14.46 |==================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
QCOW2 . 12793.79 |=============================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1g
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
QCOW2 . 124.13 |===============================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 32MB - Thread Count: 4
MB/s > Higher Is Better
QCOW2 . 5.12 |=================================================================


Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3
Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 128MB - Thread Count: 16
MB/s > Higher Is Better
QCOW2 . 1627.70 |==============================================================