kvm-centos-disk 2 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) testing on CentOS 6.6 via the Phoronix Test Suite. KVM Centos disk conf1: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) @ 2.67GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 238GB OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 KVM Centos disk conf2: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) @ 2.67GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 238GB OS: CentOS 6.6, Kernel: 2.6.32-504.3.3.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.4.7 20120313, File-System: ext4 BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better KVM Centos disk conf1 . 476168 |=========================================== KVM Centos disk conf2 . 518623 |=============================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better KVM Centos disk conf1 . 119 |====== KVM Centos disk conf2 . 995 |==================================================