VMware Player 4.0 vs. KVM Linux Virtualization VMware 4.0 Player versus Linux KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) performance benchmarks under Linux with Ubuntu 11.10 x86_64 guest and host virtualization. Testing from Intel Sandy Bridge notebook (HP ELiteBook) as used in many other Phoronix articles.
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VMware Player 4.0 vs. KVM Linux Virtualization Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 Intel Core i5-2520M @ 2.49GHz (3 Cores) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 1024MB 21GB VMware Virtual S VMware SVGA II Ensoniq ES1371 Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ubuntu 11.10 3.0.0-12-generic (x86_64) Unity 2D 4.22.0 X Server 1.10.4 vmware 11.0.3 2.1 Mesa 7.11 GCC 4.6.1 ext4 1024x768 VMware QEMU Virtual 0.14.1 @ 2.49GHz (3 Cores) Bochs Red Hat Virtio 17GB Cirrus Logic GD 5446 Generic 1af4 ID 20 Red Hat Virtio device cirrus 1.3.2 QEMU 0.14.1 OpenBenchmarking.org System Details - VMware Player 4.0: Disk Scheduler: CFQ.
VMware Player 4.0 vs. KVM Linux Virtualization x264: H.264 Video Encoding vpxenc: vpxenc sqlite: Default Test Directory smallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples povray: Total Time postmark: Disk Transaction Performance pgbench: TPC-B Transactions Per Second npb: UA.A npb: SP.A npb: MG.B npb: LU.A npb: IS.C npb: FT.B npb: EP.B npb: CG.B npb: BT.A mafft: Multiple Sequence Alignment hmmer: Pfam Database Search himeno: Poisson Pressure Solver graphics-magick: Sharpen graphics-magick: Resizing graphics-magick: Local Adaptive Thresholding graphics-magick: Blur graphics-magick: HWB Color Space ffmpeg: AVI To NTSC VCD compress-pbzip2: 256MB File Compression compress-7zip: Compress Speed Test clomp: Static OMP Speedup c-ray: Total Time build-mplayer: Time To Compile build-linux-kernel: Time To Compile build-imagemagick: Time To Compile build-apache: Time To Compile apache: Static Web Page Serving VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 39.95 13.40 63.46 285 829 295 1046.06 13.84 2247.62 2348.56 3088.38 0.87 17.11 70.74 935.91 4314.50 25.23 31.32 1226.57 32 84 33 67 113 21.57 24.16 4562 2.40 122.73 130.67 261.17 151.11 55.18 8756.52 43.42 11.61 44.74 285 828 500 1218.84 14.17 2237.58 2378.35 3142.88 2.49 39.81 70.69 948.13 4344.18 24.54 30.43 1252.28 33 86 33 68 115 22.64 24.03 4705 2.34 132.61 122.53 251.75 122.63 53.26 9323.29 OpenBenchmarking.org
x264 H.264 Video Encoding OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better x264 2011-12-06 H.264 Video Encoding VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 10 20 30 40 50 SE +/- 5.60, N = 6 SE +/- 0.55, N = 3 39.95 43.42
VP8 libvpx Encoding vpxenc OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 vpxenc VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 3 6 9 12 15 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 13.40 11.61
SQLite Test Target: Default Test Directory OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better SQLite 3.7.3 Test Target: Default Test Directory VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 3.37, N = 6 SE +/- 0.44, N = 3 63.46 44.74
Smallpt Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 285 285
POV-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 200 400 600 800 1000 829 828
PostMark Disk Transaction Performance OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 110 220 330 440 550 SE +/- 4.08, N = 5 SE +/- 4.47, N = 5 295 500
PostgreSQL pgbench TPC-B Transactions Per Second OpenBenchmarking.org TPS, More Is Better PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 16.73, N = 6 SE +/- 16.55, N = 5 1046.06 1218.84
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: UA.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: UA.A VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 4 8 12 16 20 SE +/- 0.16, N = 3 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 13.84 14.17
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: SP.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: SP.A VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 6.80, N = 3 SE +/- 4.71, N = 3 2247.62 2237.58
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: MG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: MG.B VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 SE +/- 1.36, N = 3 SE +/- 0.64, N = 3 2348.56 2378.35
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: LU.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: LU.A VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 700 1400 2100 2800 3500 SE +/- 23.72, N = 3 SE +/- 4.65, N = 3 3088.38 3142.88
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: IS.C OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: IS.C VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 0.5603 1.1206 1.6809 2.2412 2.8015 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 SE +/- 0.13, N = 6 0.87 2.49
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: FT.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: FT.B VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 1.21, N = 3 SE +/- 0.77, N = 3 17.11 39.81
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: EP.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.B VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.47, N = 3 70.74 70.69
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: CG.B OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: CG.B VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 200 400 600 800 1000 SE +/- 1.14, N = 3 SE +/- 8.11, N = 3 935.91 948.13
NAS Parallel Benchmarks Test / Class: BT.A OpenBenchmarking.org Total Mop/s, More Is Better NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: BT.A VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 900 1800 2700 3600 4500 SE +/- 4.88, N = 3 SE +/- 0.35, N = 3 4314.50 4344.18
Timed MAFFT Alignment Multiple Sequence Alignment OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.01, N = 3 25.23 24.54
Timed HMMer Search Pfam Database Search OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 7 14 21 28 35 SE +/- 0.45, N = 6 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 31.32 30.43
Himeno Benchmark Poisson Pressure Solver OpenBenchmarking.org MFLOPS, More Is Better Himeno Benchmark 3.0 Poisson Pressure Solver VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 300 600 900 1200 1500 SE +/- 2.79, N = 3 SE +/- 1.47, N = 3 1226.57 1252.28
GraphicsMagick Operation: Sharpen OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 32 33
GraphicsMagick Operation: Resizing OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 84 86
GraphicsMagick Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 8 16 24 32 40 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 33 33
GraphicsMagick Operation: Blur OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 15 30 45 60 75 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 67 68
GraphicsMagick Operation: HWB Color Space OpenBenchmarking.org Iterations Per Minute, More Is Better GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.00, N = 3 SE +/- 0.33, N = 3 113 115
FFmpeg AVI To NTSC VCD OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better FFmpeg 0.8.7 AVI To NTSC VCD VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 5 10 15 20 25 SE +/- 0.67, N = 6 SE +/- 0.64, N = 6 21.57 22.64
Parallel BZIP2 Compression 256MB File Compression OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 6 12 18 24 30 SE +/- 0.04, N = 3 SE +/- 0.21, N = 3 24.16 24.03
7-Zip Compression Compress Speed Test OpenBenchmarking.org MIPS, More Is Better 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 SE +/- 67.77, N = 3 SE +/- 42.81, N = 3 4562 4705
CLOMP Static OMP Speedup OpenBenchmarking.org Speedup, More Is Better CLOMP 3.3 Static OMP Speedup VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 0.54 1.08 1.62 2.16 2.7 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 SE +/- 0.02, N = 5 2.40 2.34
C-Ray Total Time OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better C-Ray 1.1 Total Time VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.05, N = 3 SE +/- 0.02, N = 3 122.73 132.61
Timed MPlayer Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed MPlayer Compilation 1.0-rc3 Time To Compile VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 1.48, N = 3 SE +/- 1.08, N = 3 130.67 122.53
Timed Linux Kernel Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 60 120 180 240 300 SE +/- 2.14, N = 3 SE +/- 1.11, N = 3 261.17 251.75
Timed ImageMagick Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.52, N = 3 SE +/- 0.45, N = 3 151.11 122.63
Timed Apache Compilation Time To Compile OpenBenchmarking.org Seconds, Fewer Is Better Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 12 24 36 48 60 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.06, N = 3 55.18 53.26
Apache Benchmark Static Web Page Serving OpenBenchmarking.org Requests Per Second, More Is Better Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving VMware Player 4.0 Linux KVM 3.0 2K 4K 6K 8K 10K SE +/- 74.48, N = 3 SE +/- 78.06, N = 3 8756.52 9323.29
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