qemu-compression QEMU Virtual 0.14.1 testing with a Bochs under Ubuntu 11.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 2012-01-13 05:16: Processor: QEMU Virtual 0.14.1 @ 2.39GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM, Disk: 10GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446 OS: Ubuntu 11.10, Kernel: 3.0.0-14-virtual (x86_64), Display Driver: cirrus, Compiler: GCC 4.6.1, File-System: ext2/ext3 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better 2012-01-13 05:16 . 278 |======================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-01-13 05:16 . 165.64 |==================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-01-13 05:16 . 512.78 |==================================================== LZMA Compression 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better 2012-01-13 05:16 . 1485.99 |===================================================