Linux virtualization testing under Ubuntu 12.04 with the Linux 3.2 kernel on an Intel Core i7 platform. Testing for a future article on Phoronix.com.
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Ubuntu 12.04 Core i7 KVM Virtualization,
"VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",9.86,9.87,9.97
"KVM",7.62,7.8,7.69
"x264 2011-12-06 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",57.92,58.31,58.66
"KVM",46.14,49.65,49.63,49.34,49.37
"GMPbench 0.2 - Total Time",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",
"KVM",
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Blur",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",73,73,73
"KVM",70,70,70
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: HWB Color Space",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",107,108,107
"KVM",104,104,104
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",41,41,41
"KVM",40,40,40
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",88,88,88
"KVM",84,84,83
"GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",41,41,41
"KVM",40,40,40
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",108.39,108.66,108.43
"KVM",88.54,91.82,92.82
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",93.46,92.3,92.32
"KVM",76.23,77.33,79.19
"Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Read Compiled Tree",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",116.05,116.79,116.21
"KVM",403.47,375.28,381.04
"Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",206.436,205.758,205.456
"KVM",147.785,142.374,129.637,129.756,129.482,129.143
"Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",92.052,92.18,92.925,93.594
"KVM",23.695,22.591,24.483,24.727,23.766
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",1070.377807,1075.379689,1072.145625
"KVM",1017.193838,1018.092448,1014.127112
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",734.01,735.93,735.13,734.88
"KVM",650.55,652.98,647.39,646.75
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",1223.24,1228.88,1228.88,1223.24
"KVM",1088.44,1084.01,1079.62,1088.44
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",186.82,183.61,183.61,182.83
"KVM",139.35,138.45,136.25,139.35
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",780.12,784.11,780.12,782.11
"KVM",762.65,758.88,751.44,747.77
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Monte Carlo",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",345.25,345.25,345.25,345.25
"KVM",331.4,339.79,334.5,339.79
"SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",1134.63,1137.78,1137.78,1140.95
"KVM",930.91,943.78,935.16,918.39
"7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",8961,8690,8869
"KVM",6995,7839,7892,7761,7826,7765
"John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",2218,2170,2208
"KVM",2069,2122,2080
"NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",14904.42,14545.35,14097.84
"KVM",11875.97,12503.42,11524.55,12307.57,11655.81,11380.7
"OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",42.2,42.1,42,42
"KVM",41,41,41.2,41
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",5474.76,5450.25,5428.33
"KVM",5191.21,5133.72,5149.65
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",1483.18,1488.87,1479
"KVM",1374.53,1360.37,1343.22
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",93.28,91.71,93.42
"KVM",90.63,90.54,90.69
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: FT.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",2639.43,2678.88,2682.72
"KVM",2502.94,2514.65,2500.32
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",85.83,86.28,86.19
"KVM",63.32,63.23,63.16
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",5209.53,5165.56,5207.62
"KVM",4699.26,4753.84,4740.8
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",2525.85,2503.72,2468.28
"KVM",2458.7,2447.7,2441.65
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",2838.46,2837.85,2840.6
"KVM",2576.35,2576.87,2538.03
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",20.27,20.31,20.42
"KVM",17.71,18.49,17.44
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",35.340532064438,35.172353029251,35.144464969635
"KVM",29.044466018677,28.797916173935,28.446932077408
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",15.279501914978,15.334727048874,14.11901307106,14.920386791229,14.006810188293,14.072160959244
"KVM",19.11054110527,21.951198816299,19.096064090729,18.60481095314,18.769742012024,20.782409906387
"Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",93.878852844238,94.384277105331,94.750379085541
"KVM",103.02630996704,103.40127396584,103.60965585709
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",186.43745303154,183.77416801453,184.16688704491
"KVM",208.59809398651,205.86004710197,205.77971410751
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",106.97,106.779,106.894
"KVM",108.765,108.668,108.844
"LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",174.84384799004,175.41056394577,174.61371302605
"KVM",225.96173596382,224.14829206467,225.04832196236
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",19.591192007065,19.566414833069,19.559740066528
"KVM",20.238783836365,20.670399904251,20.377408027649
"Crafty 23.4 - Elapsed Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",109.26,109.52,109.23
"KVM",114.62,114.95,113.97
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.2.1 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",10.081250905991,10.041316986084,10.050817966461,10.039499998093,10.003756046295
"KVM",10.552103996277,10.321238994598,10.327906847,10.238183021545,10.2356300354
"LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 - WAV To MP3",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",24.38628578186,24.287071943283,24.358361959457,24.252518892288,24.314285039902
"KVM",24.861202001572,24.88268494606,25.033374071121,24.981882095337,24.995137929916
"FFmpeg 0.10 - AVI To NTSC VCD",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",15.919497013092,15.951612949371,15.886751890182
"KVM",16.778904914856,16.505815029144,16.515141963959
"N-Queens 1.0 - Elapsed Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",361.701,361.195
"KVM",368.599,368.768
"Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",830.20869016647
"KVM",851.10487389565
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",68,69,69
"KVM",70,70,70