kvmVsFull AMD Athlon II X2 4400e testing with a ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO and ATI Radeon HD 4200 368MB on Ubuntu 10.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Dedicated Athlon II X2: Processor: AMD Athlon II X2 4400e @ 2.70GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO, Chipset: AMD RS780 + SB700/SB800, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 640GB Western Digital WDC WD6400AAKS-0, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 4200 368MB (500/667MHz), Audio: VIA VT1708S, Monitor: VX700-2, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B OS: Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel: 2.6.32-35-generic-pae (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.7.6, Display Driver: fglrx 8.72.11, Compiler: GCC 4.4.3, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 KVM on Intel C2D 8400: Processor: QEMU Virtual 0.15.0 @ 3.00GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX - 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 34GB QEMU HDD, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ OS: Debian 6.0.3, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Driver: cirrus 1.3.2, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext3, System Layer: QEMU PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 415 |================================================= KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 114 |============= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 517.86 |============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 171.34 |=============== SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 1027.24 |============================================= KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 40.82 |== OpenSSL 1.0.0a RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 16.70 |================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 43.88 |=============================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 58.47 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 25.25 |==================== Ogg Encoding 1.2.0 WAV To Ogg Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 24.30 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 13.69 |========================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.706 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 52.72 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 31.25 |============================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 57 |================================ KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 90 |================================================== Minion 0.9 Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 264.90 |============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 170.92 |============================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 47.14 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 34.11 |================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 4615 |================================================ KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 3380 |=================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.98.2 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 39.98 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 29.42 |=================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 258.46 |============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 192.96 |================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 43.81 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 33.33 |==================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.17 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 9129.20 |============================================= KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 7552.20 |===================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 21 |============================================ KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 24 |================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 1037 |================================================ KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 1030 |================================================ Crafty 23.3 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better KVM on Intel C2D 8400 . 464.41 |=============================================== Tachyon 0.98.7 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 81.34 |=============================================== GMPbench 0.1 Total Time GMPbench Score > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 3868.25 |============================================= PostgreSQL pgbench 9.0.4 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 108.08 |============ KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 424.23 |============================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 47.07 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 27.68 |============================ Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Read - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 3557.29 |============================================= KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 32.05 | Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 64MB Write - 32 Threads MB/s > Higher Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 85.13 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 29.94 |================= Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 Pfam Database Search Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 71.16 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 51.45 |================================== GnuPG 1.4.10 1GB File Encryption Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 18.75 |============================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 29.09 |=============================================== FFmpeg 0.8.2 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Dedicated Athlon II X2 . 37.26 |=============================================== KVM on Intel C2D 8400 .. 15.14 |===================