Ubuntu 12.04 Core i7 KVM Virtualization

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