Intel Ivy Bridge Linux Virtualization
Intel Core i7-3770K testing with a ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0 and Intel Ivy Bridge on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Running KVM virtualization on i7-3770K host for a future article on Phoronix.com looking at the KVM and Oracle VM VirtualBox virtualization performance with Intel Ivy Bridge hardware.


Bare Metal: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ECS Z77H2-A2X v1.0, Chipset: Intel Ivy Bridge DRAM, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 240GB OCZ VERTEX3, Graphics: Intel Ivy Bridge, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168B

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: intel 2.17.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

Linux KVM: 

	Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 26GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 20, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 2D 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: cirrus 1.3.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU 1.0

VirtualBox 4.1.12: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: innotek VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 12288MB, Disk: 39GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: Chromium, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Monitor: VBOX monitor, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: vboxvideo 1.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080, System Layer: VirtualBox 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245


Nexuiz 2.5.2
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - HDR: Yes - Sound: On
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal . 38.06 |===========================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 122.07 |===================================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 36.50  |===============


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 27.63 |====================================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 19.00 |====================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 27.51 |====================================================
Linux KVM ......... 22.86 |===========================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 5.88  |===========


x264 2011-12-06
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 151.00 |===================================================
Linux KVM ......... 127.30 |===========================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 14.06  |=====


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 5631.79 |==================================================
Linux KVM ......... 5616.60 |==================================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 5338.20 |===============================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 1638.06 |==================================================
Linux KVM ......... 1623.49 |==================================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 895.32  |===========================


7-Zip Compression 9.20.1
Compress Speed Test
MIPS > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 21332 |====================================================
Linux KVM ......... 18371 |=============================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 7491  |==================


John The Ripper 1.7.9
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal . 5977 |============================================================
Linux KVM .. 5853 |===========================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.2.21
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 24196.28 |=================================================
Linux KVM ......... 16900.70 |==================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 4391.28  |=========


OpenSSL 1.0.0e
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal . 100.33 |==========================================================
Linux KVM .. 99.80  |==========================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: IS.C
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 203.76 |===================================================
Linux KVM ......... 135.56 |==================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 127.81 |================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 6107.88 |==================================================
Linux KVM ......... 5878.07 |================================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 5595.97 |==============================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 46.85 |====================================================
Linux KVM ......... 44.52 |=================================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 40.76 |=============================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 3088.55 |==================================================
Linux KVM ......... 1582.58 |==========================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 1173.80 |===================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 79.60  |=========================
Linux KVM ......... 89.93  |============================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 161.91 |===================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 44.74 |========================================
Linux KVM ......... 46.47 |==========================================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 57.75 |====================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 7.88  |====================
Linux KVM ......... 7.92  |====================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 20.22 |====================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 81  |======================
Linux KVM ......... 81  |======================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 202 |======================================================


LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3
WAV To MP3
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Bare Metal ........ 12.90 |======================
Linux KVM ......... 12.98 |======================
VirtualBox 4.1.12 . 30.79 |====================================================