Ubuntu 12.04 Oracle AMD Virtualization

Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge Extreme and AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 benchmarking of various Ubuntu 12.04 LTS virtualization options with the Precise Linux 3.2 kernel. Testing of bare metal, Xen, KVM, and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization methods from this Intel Sandy Bridge Extreme Edition and AMD Bulldozer systems that was running in the same configuration for the duration of testing. This Linux virtualization benchmarking is for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal
March 24 2012
 
Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM
March 24 2012
 
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March 24 2012
 
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Ubuntu 12.04 Oracle AMD Virtualization, "VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1 - vpxenc", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",23.68,23.63,23.31 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",19.64,19.61,19.75 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",23.1,23.35,23.08 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",8.01,7.92,7.89 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",19.83,19.9,19.85 "x264 2011-12-06 - H.264 Video Encoding", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",167.7,172.54,171.07 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",137.32,138.69,142.51 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",156.99,151.98,160.66 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",27.4,26.93,26.75 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",131.03,132.22,132.98 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Blur", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",118,117,118 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",113,113,113 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",98,98,99 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",89,91,90 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",114,114,114 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: HWB Color Space", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",162,162,162 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",157,157,157 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",146,146,146 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",135,134,134 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",162,162,162 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",85,85,85 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",83,83,83 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",77,77,77 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",63,62,60 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",67,67,67 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Resizing", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",146,146,146 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",138,138,138 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",129,130,130 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",100,96,95 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",131,131,130 "GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 - Operation: Sharpen", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",87,87,87 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",85,85,85 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",81,81,81 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",66,66,66 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",64,64,64 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Compile", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",415.68,433.63,437.68 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",291.75,316.57,315.44,321.45,314.62,316.88 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",389.79,368.48,377.67 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",364.8,337.45,350.36,339.81,350.79 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",611.6,576,582.17 "Compile Bench 0.6 - Test: Initial Create", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",206.13,227.49,226.71 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",152.11,162.16,161.87,160.62 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",140.64,145.17,146.47 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",143.02,143.49,135.11 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",223.95,230.23,231.44 "Dbench 4.0 - Client Count: 1", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",300.761,300.417,300.474 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",268.022,267.351,269.615 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",255.442,254.778,254.78 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",112.298,114.206,115.319 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",175.663,175.715,175.562 "Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 - Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",175.272,174.297,174.934,173.98 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",9.651,9.479,9.531,9.601 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",135.874,135.283,135.552,136.857 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",38.357,34.074,34.328,35.631,34.991,37.28,35.063,37.138 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",257.185,249.445,250.706,255.576 "Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",1357.925285,1356.59929,1357.199132 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",1322.328123,1321.296499,1322.811533 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",1351.671662,1352.061556,1351.21841 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",1256.602396,1262.693251,1257.155994 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",633.124238,631.328673,631.141308 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Composite", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",1061.22,1063.28,1059.16,1065.21 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",958.4,961.26,952.6,956.48 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",1048.69,1048,1052.12,1053.9 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",897.03,907.47,910.78,913.38 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",808.21,811.41,811.04,807.5 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",1939.39,1939.39,1939.39,1946.47 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",1742.92,1731.6 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",1932.37,1918.47,1932.37,1932.37 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",1611.28,1626.02,1682.44,1656.31 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",1748.63,1760.18,1754.39 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",315.73,314.57,289.07,312.28 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",180.51,179.76 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",306.68,307.78,311.14,308.89 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",172.51,169.1,173.91,171.13 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",79.23,79.23,78.93,79.23 "SciMark 2.0 - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",1644.98,1651.61,1658.3,1658.3 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",1484.06,1478.7,1462.86,1468.1 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",1606.27,1612.6,1618.97,1631.87 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",1356.29,1422.22,1347.37,1412.41 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",1069.45,1069.45,1063.9,1063.9 "7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",25112,25122,24812 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",22194,20637,20935,21508 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",23604,23629,24054 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",5030,5353,5218 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",17574,17404,17535 "John The Ripper 1.7.9 - Test: Blowfish", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",6538,6595,6552 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",6021,6423,6366 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",6062,5389,5918,4881,5472,6222 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",2640,1889,1760,1936,2428,2419 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",6400,6345,6412 "NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 - Static Web Page Serving", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",17638.87,17567.53,17708.58 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",16097.08,16788.79,17316.31,16499.93 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",17862.23,17758.65,17745.35 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",3595.35,3460.4,3460.39 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",17859.64,17598.77,17660.13 "OpenSSL 1.0.0e - RSA 4096-bit Performance", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",74.5,74.5,75.5,75.4 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",75,74.9,75.1,74.4 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",75.3,75.1,74.3,75.2 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",72.7,72.2,70.6,72.4 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",70.8,69.9,69.7,71 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: BT.A", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",16444.72,16434.37,16310.3 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",13783.95,14303.04,14197.86 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",15106.39,15147.22,14685.64 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",3706.29,3524.26,3571.58 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",11866.73,11911.87,11832.06 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: CG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",3314.7,3304.83,3301.89 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",3084.49,3091.03,2724.58,2990.68,2863.12,2894.31 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",2921.55,2672.3,2963.84,2897.97,2813.26,2779.94 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",629.94,733.72,609.77,737.91,699.5,639.83 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",2481.11,2481.57,2480.64 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.B", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",306.7,304.47,305.4 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",276.02,302.04,301.56,301.85,299.78,301.16 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",297.11,297.81,297.61 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",209.98,207.36,206.18 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",177.13,177.81,177.5 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: FT.B", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",9098.84,9102.36,9107.07 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",8596.5,8586.19,8584.3 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",8687.51,8682.31,8709.19 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",4649.43,4709.31,4977.97,4969,5042.79,4881.82 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",6408.87,6402.74,6364.82 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: IS.C", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",154.24,154.35,155.13 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",84.96,85.13,84.81 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",153.9,153.99,154.09 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",81.54,80.4,80.89 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",107.53,107.48,107.58 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: LU.A", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",15285.66,15468.19,15425.4 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",12086.72,12319.05,10359.72,11430.11,13865.06,12742.6 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",10439.5,13690.19,10828.33,13447.06,8600.59,12475.46 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",2529.37,2616.33,2468.15 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",11534.11,11634.74,11624.22 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: MG.B", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",10169.25,10194.29,10113 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",9257.07,5582.6,9454.68,7726.82,8948.2,9568.27 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",5535.8,9090.14,5725.88,7368.6,9179.07,9292.17 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",1357.31,1759.4,1219.28,1264.4,1375.77,1607 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",4629.94,4592.69,4625.91 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: SP.A", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",9332.06,9366.33,9322.7 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",6684.61,5927.8,5931.17,6696.22,8395.18,8408.02 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",7156.09,6645.2,7116.45,6861.5 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",1112.89,1090.63,1098.37 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",5440.24,5528.49,5356 "NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: UA.A", Higher Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",73.2,73.14,73.02 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",51.06,65.61,65.61,29.07,62.66,67.73 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",53.57,37.24,41.61,43.54,49.03,51.53 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",2.58,2.76,2.9,2.67,2.76,3.06 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",39.29,38.69,39.26 "Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",12.30513381958,12.036936998367,12.069494962692 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",10.906995773315,10.630497932434,10.475049972534 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",9.8737850189209,9.7032260894775,9.6381959915161 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",31.11058807373,28.701076984406,29.274710893631,30.669647932053,29.934895038605 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",16.8794028759,16.654890060425,16.6140229702 "Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",5.0141248703003,4.7886328697205,4.8763120174408 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",7.4278748035431,6.5461339950562,7.4123220443726,7.4666011333466,8.7177159786224,7.1099472045898 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",7.6946609020233,8.2047209739685,7.3403949737549,7.7849810123444,7.3832621574402,7.4268209934235 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",59.562542915344,62.25750207901,60.124615907669 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",7.5935370922089,6.9722120761871,7.0008301734924,7.0182049274445,6.2079470157623,7.0470759868622 "Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",41.964617967606,41.921264886856,42.314543008804 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",41.366359949112,41.544276952744,41.01483798027 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",50.293492078781,50.403675079346,50.368571043015 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",58.842184066772,57.446866989136,58.48860502243 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",56.232461929321,56.092581033707,55.769795894623 "Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 - Time To Compile", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",66.959409952164,65.033440828323,65.133948802948 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",77.847206830978,75.538065910339,76.16530585289 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",118.29528808594,115.28712415695,116.67744708061 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",123.22491884232,113.25804400444,114.62323999405,116.13472485542,114.57042098045 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",92.940562963486,90.074321985245,90.571166992188 "C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",37.419,37.228,37.455 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",39.421,39.401,39.438 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",39.476,39.515,39.487 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",56.89,55.975,56.691 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",46.027,46.019,46.032 "LZMA Compression - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",155.81951498985,154.97085309029,155.03741908073 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",198.65539598465,197.16428995132,197.97818493843 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",144.59783291817,144.9406580925,143.46590399742 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",208.50054502487,210.86219501495,209.0687148571 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",152.23645615578,152.49073600769,152.25860619545 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 - 256MB File Compression", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",6.1262249946594,6.034991979599,6.0239789485931 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",6.7847399711609,6.3874201774597,6.3313369750977,6.2802381515503,6.3378791809082 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",6.25102186203,6.9053680896759,6.2546999454498,6.2503490447998,6.295469045639,6.2950367927551 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",14.642451047897,13.547646045685,13.104779005051,12.900304079056,13.856974124908,13.150133132935 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",8.3656661510468,8.3611450195312,8.2494349479675 "Crafty 23.4 - Elapsed Time", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",90.9,91.02,90.97 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",93.65,93.97,93.85 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",91.72,92.69,93.23 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",99.05,99.55,99.27 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",105.04,105.6,105.38 "Open FMM Nero2D 2.0.2 - Total Time", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",708.08568382263 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",715.71842908859 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",713.80950689316 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",749.63130998611 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",1038.7323150635 "Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples", Lower Results Are Better "Intel Core i7 3960X: Bare Metal",21,21,21 "Intel Core i7 3960X: KVM",21,21,21 "Intel Core i7 3960X: Xen",22,21,21 "Intel Core i7 3960X: VirtualBox",28,29,30 "AMD FX-8150: Bare Metal",33,33,33