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 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. ,,"Bare Metal","KVM" Processor,,Intel Core i7 720Q @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores),QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 1.60GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,LENOVO 4318CTO,Bochs Chipset,,Intel Core DMI,Red Hat Virtio Memory,,4096MB,3072MB Disk,,160GB INTEL SSDSA2M160,35GB Graphics,,NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M 1024MB (550/790MHz),LLVMpipe Audio,,Conexant CX20585,Generic 1af4 ID 20 Network,,Intel 82577LM Gigabit Connection + Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300,Red Hat Virtio device OS,,Ubuntu 12.04,Ubuntu 12.04 Kernel,,3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64),3.2.0-20-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,Unity 5.6.0,Unity 2D 5.6.0 Display Server,,X Server 1.11.3,X Server 1.11.3 Display Driver,,nouveau 0.0.16,cirrus 1.3.2 OpenGL,,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 Compiler,,GCC 4.6,GCC 4.6 File-System,,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1600x900,1024x768 System Layer,,,QEMU 1.0 ,,"Bare Metal","KVM" "SciMark - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization (Mflops)",HIB,1226.06,1085.13 "SciMark - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform (Mflops)",HIB,184.22,138.35 "SciMark - Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation (Mflops)",HIB,781.62,755.19 "SciMark - Computational Test: Monte Carlo (Mflops)",HIB,345.25,336.37 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,1137.79,932.06 "Crafty - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,109.34,114.51 "Threaded I/O Tester - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 (MB/s)",HIB,92.69,23.85 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,734.99,649.42 "Compile Bench - Test: Compile (MB/s)",HIB,108.49,91.06 "Compile Bench - Test: Initial Create (MB/s)",HIB,92.69,77.58 "Compile Bench - Test: Read Compiled Tree (MB/s)",HIB,116.35,386.60 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,10.04,10.34 "LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,24.32,24.95 "Dbench - Client Count: 1 (MB/s)",HIB,205.88,134.70 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,35.22,28.76 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,14.62,19.72 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,174.96,225.05 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1072.63,1016.47 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: BT.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5451.11,5158.19 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: CG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,1483.68,1359.37 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.B (Mop/s)",HIB,92.80,90.62 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: FT.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2667.01,2505.97 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: IS.C (Mop/s)",HIB,86.10,63.24 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: LU.A (Mop/s)",HIB,5194.24,4731.30 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: MG.B (Mop/s)",HIB,2499.28,2449.35 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: SP.A (Mop/s)",HIB,2838.97,2563.75 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: UA.A (Mop/s)",HIB,20.33,17.88 "N-Queens - Elapsed Time (sec)",LIB,361.45,368.68 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,94.34,103.35 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,8840,7680 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,2199,2090 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,19.57,20.43 "Open FMM Nero2D - Total Time (sec)",LIB,830.21,851.10 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,184.79,206.75 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,9.90,7.70 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Blur (Iterations/min)",HIB,73,70 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,107,104 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding (Iterations/min)",HIB,41,40 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,88,84 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,41,40 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,58.30,48.83 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,106.88,108.76 "FFmpeg - AVI To NTSC VCD (sec)",LIB,15.92,16.60 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,69,70 "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,14515.87,11874.67 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,42.08,41.05 "GMPbench - Total Time (GMPbench Score)",HIB,1737.30,1701