A future article on Phoronix.com looking at the KVM guest performance of Ubuntu 11.10 and past Ubuntu Linux releases going back to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Both 32-bit and 64-bit guest performance is to be looked at. Host is the Lenovo ThinkPad W510 with KVM.
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Ubuntu 11.10 KVM
A future article on Phoronix.com looking at the KVM guest performance of Ubuntu 11.10 and past Ubuntu Linux releases going back to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Both 32-bit and 64-bit guest performance is to be looked at. Host is the Lenovo ThinkPad W510 with KVM.
,,"32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.10","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10"
Processor,,Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 6.38GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),Pentium II @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 1.60GHz (4 Cores)
Motherboard,,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs,Bochs
Chipset,,Qumranet 1002,Qumranet Device 1002,Qumranet Virtio,Qumranet Virtio,Qumranet Virtio,Red Hat Virtio,Red Hat Virtio,Red Hat Virtio,Red Hat Virtio,Red Hat Virtio,Red Hat Virtio,Qumranet Virtio,Qumranet Virtio
Memory,,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB,2048MB
Disk,,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,8GB,6GB,6GB,6GB,6GB,8GB,8GB,8GB
Graphics,,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446
Audio,,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio
Network,,Qumranet 1000,Qumranet Virtio device,Qumranet Virtio device,Qumranet Virtio device,Qumranet Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Red Hat Virtio device,Qumranet Virtio device,Qumranet Virtio device
OS,,Ubuntu 8.04,Ubuntu 8.10,Ubuntu 9.04,Ubuntu 9.10,Ubuntu 10.04,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.04,Ubuntu 10.10,Ubuntu 10.04,Ubuntu 9.10
Kernel,,2.6.24-26-generic (i686),2.6.27-7-generic (i686),2.6.28-11-generic (i686),2.6.31-14-generic (i686),2.6.32-33-generic (i686),2.6.35-22-generic (i686),2.6.38-8-generic (i686),3.0.0-12-generic (i686),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),2.6.38-8-generic (x86_64),2.6.35-22-generic (x86_64),2.6.32-33-generic (x86_64),2.6.31-14-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,GNOME 2.22.3,GNOME 2.24.1,GNOME 2.26.1,GNOME 2.28.1,GNOME 2.30.2,GNOME 2.32.0,GNOME 2.32.1,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0,GNOME 2.32.1,GNOME 2.32.0,GNOME 2.30.2,GNOME 2.28.1
Display Server,,X Server 1.4.0.90,X Server 1.5.2,X Server 1.6.0,X Server 1.6.4,X Server 1.7.6,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.1,X Server 1.9.0,X Server 1.7.6,X Server 1.6.4
Display Driver,,cirrus 1.1.0,cirrus 1.2.1,cirrus 1.2.1,cirrus 1.3.1,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.1
OpenGL,,1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.3-rc2),2.1 Mesa 7.2,2.1 Mesa 7.4,2.1 Mesa 7.6,,,,,,,,,2.1 Mesa 7.6
Compiler,,GCC 4.2.4,GCC 4.3.2,GCC 4.3.3,GCC 4.4.1,GCC 4.4.3,GCC 4.4.5,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.5.2,GCC 4.4.5,GCC 4.4.3,GCC 4.4.1
File-System,,ext3,ext3,ext3,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,800x600,800x600,800x600,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768
System Layer,,,,,,,,,,QEMU,QEMU,QEMU,QEMU,QEMU
,,"32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.10","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04","32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10"
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,13.23,29.19,29.71,26.81,30.70,30.81,31.40,29.24,25.15,27.19,27.20,26.88,23.88
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,,24.37,25.36,24.97,27.21,27.31,26.80,26.80,31.07,30.88,31.56,31.37,28.91
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,65,64,65,66,66,67,66,73,96,87,88,88,88
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,50,53,53,53,53,54,50,58,54,50,50,50,50
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,31,28,28,28,29,29,28,30,26,26,26,26,26
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,55,55,56,57,58,59,57,64,69,64,64,64,64
"GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,37,38,38,39,38,38,38,41,25,25,25,25,25
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,4598,4479,4550,4720,4860,4814,4862,5062,5470,5627,5665,5645,5585
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,2382000,2388333,2410000,2410667,2400667,2381000,2440000,2407667,2714667,2861667,2795667,2770333,2760000
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,7894,7878,7952,7819,7822,7728,7991,7824,11632,12120,11841,11772,11688
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,361,357,361,351,353,356,363,360,740,700,688,677,687
"Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,7298.58,6016.27,6430.74,473.83,5467.69,4688.62,6172.07,7576.54,7592.43,5974.67,4976.57,5712.28,7988.75
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,17.88,17.93,17.77,17.98,17.85,17.98,18.13,18.25,40.28,40.40,40.15,40.10,40.05
"PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,682.39,682.32,641.18,677.21,1038.57,817.46,745.85,846.11,934.00,819.75,955.09,1046.48,659.70
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,334,308,337,571,606,521,516,521,783,786,1064,3125,2986
"SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,,,177.98,92.27,75.77,232.06,80.48,76.88,71.25,81.02,257.22,73.71,91.45
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,243.39,273.26,273.74,282.28,282.92,274.44,269.61,264.97,127.86,127.00,146.78,146.86,146.99
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,439,441,440,415,415,404,410,413,350,346,337,342,337
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,38.66,39.25,39.27,37.26,37.88,34.04,34.23,35.60,32.32,31.97,31.83,32.20,32.33
"FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,18.22,20.43,20.23,18.31,18.18,18.33,17.85,13.52,10.92,10.99,11.37,11.30,11.40