meph qemu testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. QEMU HDD - Common KVM: Processor: Common KVM @ 3.39GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-72-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: qemu IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 7743.75 |============================================== IOzone 3.405 Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 1050.32 |============================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 5681 |================================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 30374.02 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 30096.30 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 33977.10 |============================================= Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 34020.55 |============================================= NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 12893.59 |============================================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 11.80 |================================================ John The Ripper 1.8.0 Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 4357 |================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 202 |================================================== Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver MFLOPS > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 2077.03 |============================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 24.67 |================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 11.99 |================================================ LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 309.43 |=============================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 75.64 |================================================ LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 11.67 |================================================ FFmpeg 2.8.1 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 13.72 |================================================ PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better QEMU HDD - Common KVM . 437095 |===============================================