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.

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32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.04
October 09 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 8.10
October 09 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04
October 08 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10
October 08 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04
October 08 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10
October 08 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04
October 08 2011
 
32-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10
October 07 2011
 
64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.10
October 09 2011
 
64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 11.04
October 09 2011
 
64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.10
October 09 2011
 
64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 10.04
October 09 2011
 
64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.10
October 10 2011
 
64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04
October 10 2011
 
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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","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04" 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),QEMU Virtual 0.12.5 @ 6.38GHz (4 Cores) Motherboard,,Bochs,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,Qumranet Virtio Memory,,2048MB,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,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,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,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,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,Ubuntu 9.04 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),2.6.28-11-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,GNOME 2.26.1 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,X Server 1.6.0 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,cirrus 1.2.1 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 7.6,2.1 Mesa 7.4 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,GCC 4.3.3 File-System,,ext3,ext3,ext3,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext3 Screen Resolution,,800x600,800x600,800x600,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768 System Layer,,,,,,,,,,QEMU,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","64-bit KVM: Ubuntu 9.04" "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,13.23,29.19,29.71,26.81,30.70,30.81,31.40,29.24,25.15,27.19,27.20,26.88,23.88,25.55 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,17.88,17.93,17.77,17.98,17.85,17.98,18.13,18.25,40.28,40.40,40.15,40.10,40.05,39.38 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,361,357,361,351,353,356,363,360,740,700,688,677,687,649 "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,7894,7878,7952,7819,7822,7728,7991,7824,11632,12120,11841,11772,11688,11284 "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,2382000,2388333,2410000,2410667,2400667,2381000,2440000,2407667,2714667,2861667,2795667,2770333,2760000,2760333 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,37,38,38,39,38,38,38,41,25,25,25,25,25,25 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,55,55,56,57,58,59,57,64,69,64,64,64,64,64 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,31,28,28,28,29,29,28,30,26,26,26,26,26,26 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,50,53,53,53,53,54,50,58,54,50,50,50,50,51 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,65,64,65,66,66,67,66,73,96,87,88,88,88,93 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,,24.37,25.36,24.97,27.21,27.31,26.80,26.80,31.07,30.88,31.56,31.37,28.91,29.93 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,18.22,20.43,20.23,18.31,18.18,18.33,17.85,13.52,10.92,10.99,11.37,11.30,11.40,12.44 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,38.66,39.25,39.27,37.26,37.88,34.04,34.23,35.60,32.32,31.97,31.83,32.20,32.33,33.78 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,439,441,440,415,415,404,410,413,350,346,337,342,337,347 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,243.39,273.26,273.74,282.28,282.92,274.44,269.61,264.97,127.86,127.00,146.78,146.86,146.99,140.65 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,4598,4479,4550,4720,4860,4814,4862,5062,5470,5627,5665,5645,5585,5437 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,334,308,337,571,606,521,516,521,783,786,1064,3125,2986,379 "SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,,,177.98,92.27,75.77,232.06,80.48,76.88,71.25,81.02,257.22,73.71,91.45,195.49 "PostgreSQL pgbench - TPC-B Transactions Per Second (TPS)",HIB,682.39,682.32,641.18,677.21,1038.57,817.46,745.85,846.11,934.00,819.75,955.09,1046.48,659.70,620.39 "Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,7298.58,6016.27,6430.74,473.83,5467.69,4688.62,6172.07,7576.54,7592.43,5974.67,4976.57,5712.28,7988.75,6162.55