n KVM testing on CentOS 7.2.1511 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 @ 2.49GHz (32 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 3 x 16384 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 40GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS 7.2.1511, Kernel: 3.10.0-327.36.3.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 . 390.81 |===============================================