S1-2 KVM testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Core: Processor: Intel Core @ 2.39GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: OpenStack Foundation Nova v2014.2.4, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 2000 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 11GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-64-generic (x86_64), File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Intel Core . 2914 |============================================================ Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.12 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core . 71.39 |=========================================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core . 18.69 |=========================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Core . 453.36 |==========================================================