Ubuntu 15.10 Virtualization Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix. Bare Metal Host: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.50GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E7 v3/Xeon, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 80GB INTEL SSDSCKGW08, Graphics: AMD FirePro V7900 2048MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: ASUS PB278, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: radeon 7.5.99, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2560x1440 KVM Guest: Processor: 20 x Intel Core (Haswell no TSX) @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 30GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: QEMU ID 22, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: modesetting 1.17.2, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM Xen 4.5 Guest: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 @ 3.10GHz (20 Cores), Motherboard: Xen HVM domU v4.5.1, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 30GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe OS: Ubuntu 15.10, Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity, Display Server: X Server 1.17.2, Display Driver: cirrus 1.5.3, OpenGL: 3.0 Mesa 11.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.1 20151010, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: Xen HVM domU 4.5.1 Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 16866.69 |========================= KVM Guest ....... 34559.58 |=================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 13949.48 |===================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 573197.94 |=========================== KVM Guest ....... 1055445.71 |================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 659815.77 |=============================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 638573.96 |======================= KVM Guest ....... 1348172.37 |================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 778119.11 |============================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: LPUSH Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 575171.54 |========================= KVM Guest ....... 1110582.42 |================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 674616.77 |============================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SADD Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 600962.81 |========================== KVM Guest ....... 1132218.92 |================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 697263.81 |============================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: LPOP Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 641140.00 |======================== KVM Guest ....... 1328080.48 |================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 758870.04 |============================ PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 2015.07 |============================================= KVM Guest ....... 1127.06 |========================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 2318.08 |==================================================== FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 24.58 |================================================= KVM Guest ....... 26.83 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 24.18 |================================================= LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 12.87 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 12.85 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 12.83 |====================================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 7.17 |======================================================= KVM Guest ....... 7.07 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 7.04 |====================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 10.76 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 10.86 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 10.71 |===================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 55.83 |=================================================== KVM Guest ....... 59.49 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 56.26 |=================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 1879.53 |==================================================== KVM Guest ....... 1852.47 |=================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 1866.28 |==================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 178 |======================================================== KVM Guest ....... 149 |=============================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 178 |======================================================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 328.26 |===================================================== KVM Guest ....... 250.74 |======================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 208.46 |================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 4.34 |======================================== KVM Guest ....... 5.28 |================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 5.98 |======================================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 15.57 |===================================================== KVM Guest ....... 15.98 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 15.81 |===================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 20.56 |============================================ KVM Guest ....... 25.31 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 23.00 |================================================= Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 97.23 |===================================================== KVM Guest ....... 98.60 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 97.09 |===================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP MRI Gridding Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 97.11 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 96.83 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 96.68 |====================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 7.09 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 7.18 |======================================================= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 6.95 |===================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 2206.42 |==================================================== KVM Guest ....... 871.69 |===================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 821.20 |=================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 302.61 |===================================================== KVM Guest ....... 237.94 |========================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 225.15 |======================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 883.91 |=================================================== KVM Guest ....... 911.23 |===================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 779.08 |============================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 56.74 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 20.43 |=================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 49.84 |=============================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 92.88 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 22.45 |============= Xen 4.5 Guest ... 20.08 |============ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Sequential Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 35.50 |==================================================== KVM Guest ....... 35.07 |=================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 37.09 |====================================================== Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Write - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 90.86 |====================================================== KVM Guest ....... 20.96 |============ Xen 4.5 Guest ... 20.48 |============ Flexible IO Tester 2.1.13 Type: Random Read - IO Engine: POSIX AIO - Buffered: No - Direct: Yes - Block Size: 4KB - Disk Target: Default Test Directory - Result: MB/s MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host . 22.18 |================================== KVM Guest ....... 35.43 |====================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 35.08 |===================================================== SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host . 374.67 |==================== KVM Guest ....... 999.28 |===================================================== Xen 4.5 Guest ... 421.87 |======================