cs8 KVM testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. cs8_1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) @ 3.29GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM (0.5.1 BIOS), Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 8001 MB RAM, Disk: 1819GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-122-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM cs8_2: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) @ 3.29GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Red Hat KVM (0.5.1 BIOS), Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 8001 MB RAM, Disk: 1819GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-122-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better cs8_1 . 3695 |================================================================= cs8_2 . 3554 |=============================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 10.3 Scaling: On-Disk - Test: Normal Load - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better cs8_2 . 41.53 |================================================================ MySQL Sysbench 10.3 Type: Oltp Read Write - Threads: 32 TPS > Higher Is Better cs8_2 . 93.96 |================================================================ NGINX Benchmark 1.9.9 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better cs8_2 . 18324.84 |============================================================= Apache Benchmark 2.4.29 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better cs8_2 . 9707.69 |==============================================================