Xen benchmarking from Ubuntu 11.10 on host and guest against KVM-QEMU on Ubuntu 11.10 and VirtualBox. Testing by Phoronix.com Michael Larabel for a future article.
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Xen HVM domU vs. KVM vs. VirtualBox - Ubuntu,
"7-Zip Compression 9.13 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",13551,12891,13550
"VirtualBox",11334,11198,11353
"Xen HVM DomU",9824,9878,9610
"KVM-QEMU",11629,11772,11871
"Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",15545.21,15887.49,15495.51
"VirtualBox",4359.72,4295,4292.16
"Xen HVM DomU",11320.99,11189.42,11184.04
"KVM-QEMU",11569.9,11010.8,11160.49
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",72.824,72.729,74.187
"VirtualBox",86.361,85.694,86.381
"Xen HVM DomU",107.641,107.67,107.652
"KVM-QEMU",80.322,80.347,80.893
"CLOMP 3.3 - Static OMP Speedup",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",4.91,4.85,4.79,5.03,4.94
"VirtualBox",3.38,4.26,4.33,4.09,3.22,4.25,4.03,4.3,3.77,4.47
"Xen HVM DomU",4.3,4.28,4.16,4.2,4.25
"KVM-QEMU",4.61,4.81,3.95,4.85,4.9,4.81,4.75,4.67,4.92,4.74
"John The Ripper 1.7.8 - Test: Traditional DES",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",3540000,3376000,3509000
"VirtualBox",3256000,3271000,3246000
"Xen HVM DomU",2386000,2409000,2397000
"KVM-QEMU",3346000,3362000,3441000
"John The Ripper 1.7.8 - Test: MD5",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",11157,11108,11106
"VirtualBox",10525,10611,10550
"Xen HVM DomU",7630,7631,7622
"KVM-QEMU",11046,11070,11072
"John The Ripper 1.7.8 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",716,714,713
"VirtualBox",679,688,683
"Xen HVM DomU",492,489,491
"KVM-QEMU",709,710,712
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",9497.76,9530.73,9421.24
"VirtualBox",8126.55,8012.38,8011.06
"Xen HVM DomU",7012.07,7043.66,7046.41
"KVM-QEMU",9186.32,9135.83,9082.01
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",2260.17,2257.95,2261.8
"VirtualBox",1943.75,1945.89,1942.49
"Xen HVM DomU",1671.22,1670.56,1674.03
"KVM-QEMU",2143.42,2098.4,2149.4
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",155.67,158.62,158.79
"VirtualBox",145.76,144.94,144.38
"Xen HVM DomU",116.65,116.68,116.45
"KVM-QEMU",155.62,153.94,153.52
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: FT.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",4976.88,4947.54,4884.45
"VirtualBox",4370.48,4319.45,4234.29
"Xen HVM DomU",3774.9,3781.39,3775.6
"KVM-QEMU",4756.51,4735.18,4656.66
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",142.45,141.48,141.53
"VirtualBox",87,74.47,76.64,73.08,85.18,73.08
"Xen HVM DomU",97.73,97.57,97.75
"KVM-QEMU",92.63,90.24,74.65,91.26,87.49,90.95
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",9242.71,9362.73,6646.6,8952.36,9280.82,9335.11
"VirtualBox",7746.38,7933.37,8000.84
"Xen HVM DomU",6240.89,6263.81,6259.47
"KVM-QEMU",7959.83,8610.42,8671.01,8710.89,8487.67,8711.29
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",5262.07,5270.09,5255.86
"VirtualBox",4631.56,4560.65,4535.45
"Xen HVM DomU",4027.32,2735.36,4034.41,4085.5,4128.66,4051.79
"KVM-QEMU",5016.86,4961.46,4962.65
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",4627.16,4596.15,4590.75
"VirtualBox",4115.96,4060.93,4104.67
"Xen HVM DomU",3457.34,3324.6,3435.02
"KVM-QEMU",4376.34,4029.58,4269.33,4353.38,3938.36,4173.88
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",31.96,32.03,32.13
"VirtualBox",27.61,27.69,27.84
"Xen HVM DomU",22.29,17.99,21.53,22.47,21.87,21.17
"KVM-QEMU",27.83,29.54,28.52
"OpenSSL 1.0.0a - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",68.4,67.3,67.3,68
"VirtualBox",64.7,64.4,63.3,63.3
"Xen HVM DomU",46.7,46.8,46.7,46.7
"KVM-QEMU",67.6,66.7,66.9,67.4
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",4166,4166,4166,4166,4166
"VirtualBox",3125,2777,3125,3125,3125,3125,3125,3125,3125,3125
"Xen HVM DomU",2272,2500,2500,2500,2500,2272,2272,2500,2500,2272
"KVM-QEMU",3571,3125,3571,3125,3571,3571,3125,3571,3571,3125
"POV-Ray 3.6.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",
"VirtualBox",
"Xen HVM DomU",
"KVM-QEMU",
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",142,145,146
"VirtualBox",155,157,159
"Xen HVM DomU",188,188,188
"KVM-QEMU",143,147,147
"SQLite 3.7.3 - Test Target: Default Test Directory",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",321.23910403252,319.36997389793,319.14854001999
"VirtualBox",146.6682741642,149.16648793221,147.27702116966
"Xen HVM DomU",604.47037100792,610.1234691143,612.16496396065
"KVM-QEMU",417.85011005402,414.99639391899,417.4178750515
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.706 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",25.075356960297,24.947041034698,24.993680953979
"VirtualBox",26.946359872818,26.975700855255,26.941689014435
"Xen HVM DomU",36.429024934769,36.447439908981,36.424273014069
"KVM-QEMU",25.576783895493,25.601037979126,25.581653118134