patrik-dufresne KVM testing on Debian 8.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test-kvm-zvol-128k: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 494MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test-kvm-zvol-128k-2: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 494MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM test-kvm-zvol-128k-3: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 494MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-zvol-128k . 100 |===================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-zvol-128k-2 . 16.53 |================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-zvol-128k-2 . 21.86 |================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better test-kvm-zvol-128k-3 . 5229.58 |===============================================