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
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.
,,"Xen HVM DomU","KVM-QEMU","VirtualBox","Bare Metal"
Processor,,Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores),QEMU Virtual 0.14.1 @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 1.99GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.00GHz (8 Cores)
Motherboard,,Xen HVM domU v4.1.1,Bochs,innotek VirtualBox v1.2,Compal PBL21
Chipset,,Intel 440FX - 82441FX PMC,Red Hat Virtio,Intel 440FX - 82441FX PMC,Intel 2nd Generation Core Family
Memory,,6144MB,6144MB,6144MB,8192MB
Disk,,32GB,32GB,42GB VBOX HDD,128GB Super Talent STT_FTM28G225H
Graphics,,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,Cirrus Logic GD 5446,InnoTek VirtualBox,NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M (672/900MHz)
Audio,,Ensoniq ES1370,Generic 1af4 ID 20,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,Realtek ALC259
Network,,,Red Hat Virtio device,Intel 82540EM Gigabit,Realtek RTL8111/8168B + Atheros AR9285 Wireless
Monitor,,,,VBOX monitor,
OS,,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10,Ubuntu 11.10
Kernel,,3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64),3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0,Unity 4.22.0
Display Server,,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4,X Server 1.10.4
Display Driver,,cirrus 1.3.2,cirrus 1.3.2,vboxvideo 1.0.1,nouveau 0.0.16
Compiler,,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1,GCC 4.6.1
File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1024x768,1024x768,1920x1034,1920x1080
System Layer,,Xen HVM domU 4.1.1,QEMU,VirtualBox 4.1.2_Ubuntur38459,
OpenGL,,,2.1 Mesa 7.11,2.1 Mesa 7.11,2.1 Mesa 7.11
,,"Xen HVM DomU","KVM-QEMU","VirtualBox","Bare Metal"
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,9771,11757,11295,13331
"John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,2397333,3383000,3257667,3475000
"John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,7628,11063,10562,11124
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,491,710,683,714
"Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,11231.48,11247.06,4315.63,15642.74
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,46.73,67.15,63.93,67.75
"CLOMP - Static OMP Speedup (Speedup)",HIB,4.24,4.70,4.01,4.90
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,7034.05,9134.72,8050.00,9483.24
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1671.94,2130.41,1944.04,2259.97
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,116.59,154.36,145.03,157.69
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3777.30,4716.12,4308.07,4936.29
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,97.68,87.87,78.24,141.82
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,6254.72,8525.19,7893.53,8803.39
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,3843.84,4980.32,4575.89,5262.67
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,3405.65,4190.15,4093.85,4604.69
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,21.22,28.63,27.71,32.04
"PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,2409,3393,3090,4166
"C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,107.65,80.52,86.15,73.25
"POV-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,1328,905,962,900
"Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,188,146,157,144
"Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,36.43,25.59,26.95,25.01
"SQLite - Test Target: Default Test Directory (sec)",LIB,608.92,416.75,147.70,319.92