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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Audio Encoding 2 Tests
C/C++ Compiler Tests 10 Tests
CPU Massive 11 Tests
Creator Workloads 7 Tests
Cryptography 2 Tests
Database Test Suite 2 Tests
Disk Test Suite 2 Tests
Encoding 3 Tests
Common Kernel Benchmarks 4 Tests
Multi-Core 8 Tests
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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 Suite 1.0.0 System Test suite extracted from Ubuntu 11.10 KVM. pts/encode-flac-1.2.0 WAV To FLAC pts/encode-mp3-1.3.1 WAV To MP3 pts/postmark-1.0.0 Disk Transaction Performance pts/compress-7zip-1.5.0 Compress Speed Test pts/john-the-ripper-1.1.0 TRADITIONAL_DES_MANY_SALTS Test: Traditional DES pts/john-the-ripper-1.1.0 MD5 Test: MD5 pts/john-the-ripper-1.1.0 BLOWFISH Test: Blowfish pts/graphics-magick-1.4.1 -colorspace HWB Operation: HWB Color Space pts/graphics-magick-1.4.1 -blur 0x1.0 Operation: Blur pts/graphics-magick-1.4.1 -lat 10x10-5% Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding pts/graphics-magick-1.4.1 -resize 50% Operation: Resizing pts/graphics-magick-1.4.1 -sharpen 0x1.0 Operation: Sharpen pts/x264-1.2.0 H.264 Video Encoding pts/c-ray-1.0.0 Total Time pts/ttsiod-renderer-1.2.0 Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping pts/smallpt-1.0.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples pts/apache-1.3.0 Static Web Page Serving pts/openssl-1.5.0 RSA 4096-bit Performance pts/sqlite-1.8.0 Test Target: Default Test Directory pts/pgbench-1.3.0 TPC-B Transactions Per Second