kvm-centos-virtual KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. repeat1: Processor: 4 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) @ 2.67GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 12288 MB RAM, Disk: 283GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.6.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM repeat2: Processor: 4 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) @ 2.67GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 12288 MB RAM, Disk: 283GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.6.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM repeat3: Processor: 2 x Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) @ 2.81GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 12288 MB RAM, Disk: 283GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better repeat1 . 2170 | repeat2 . 984712 |============================================================= repeat3 . 541344 |================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Write Final Score > Higher Is Better repeat1 . 37 |= repeat2 . 1749 |=============================================================== repeat3 . 1202 |===========================================