virtio-vs-scsi debian on kvm with virtio-disk on ssd test-kvm-virtio: Processor: Common KVM @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 32GB, 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-scsi: 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-virtio-meph: Processor: Common KVM @ 3.39GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 31GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Display Driver: cirrus 1.5.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM test-kvm-virtio-meph1: Processor: Common KVM @ 3.39GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 31GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 8.7, Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce, Display Driver: cirrus 1.5.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM SQLite 3.8.10.2 Test Target: Default Test Directory Seconds < Lower Is Better test-kvm-virtio ....... 1540.95 |============================================== test-kvm-scsi ......... 1546.22 |============================================== test-kvm-virtio-meph .. 15.30 | test-kvm-virtio-meph1 . 15.53 | Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-virtio ....... 889.97 |=========================================== test-kvm-scsi ......... 583.10 |============================ test-kvm-virtio-meph1 . 973.95 |=============================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better test-kvm-virtio ....... 0.53 | test-kvm-scsi ......... 0.53 | test-kvm-virtio-meph1 . 79.33 |================================================ Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better test-kvm-virtio ....... 6004.28 |======= test-kvm-scsi ......... 6253.99 |======= test-kvm-virtio-meph1 . 38423.95 |=============================================