patrik-dufresne KVM testing on Debian 8.7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test-kvm-4k: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, 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-8k: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, 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 AIO-Stress 0.21 Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 461.75 |=============================================== test-kvm-8k . 556.28 |========================================================= SQLite 3.8.10.2 Timed SQLite Insertions Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-4k . 1928.62 |==================================================== test-kvm-8k . 2094.16 |======================================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 17.57 |========================================================== test-kvm-8k . 16.05 |===================================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 53.29 |===================================================== test-kvm-8k . 57.96 |========================================================== Dbench 4.0 128 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 94.83 |======================================================== test-kvm-8k . 98.15 |========================================================== Dbench 4.0 1 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 3.12 |======================================================= test-kvm-8k . 3.36 |=========================================================== IOzone 3.405 8GB Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 283.87 |============================================ test-kvm-8k . 367.98 |========================================================= IOzone 3.405 8GB Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 203.90 |======================================================= test-kvm-8k . 209.73 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 373.24 |=================================================== test-kvm-8k . 415.89 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Random Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 0.35 |====================================================== test-kvm-8k . 0.38 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 315.81 |====================================================== test-kvm-8k . 332.10 |========================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 89.50 |========================================================== test-kvm-8k . 80.74 |==================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 91.28 |======================================================= test-kvm-8k . 95.51 |========================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-4k . 16.88 |========================================================= test-kvm-8k . 17.11 |========================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-4k . 23.84 |========================================================= test-kvm-8k . 24.30 |========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better test-kvm-4k . 5291.17 |======================================================== test-kvm-8k . 5213.53 |=======================================================