Virtualization tests @ morrisoft Virtualization test with: Host = Ubuntu 12.04 server 64 bit / VMware VSphere ESXi 5.0U1 - Guest = Debian 6.0.5. vmware: Processor: Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB DRAM, Disk: 46GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware kvm: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.66GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM, Disk: 46GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 kvm-lvm: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.0 @ 2.66GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio, Memory: 1 x 2048 MB RAM, Disk: 46GB, Graphics: Cirrus Logic GD 5446, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 20, Network: Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-686 (i686), Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: ext4, System Layer: QEMU 1.0 host: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E5430 @ 2.66GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0TT740, Chipset: Intel 5000X MCH, Memory: 4 x 2048 MB DDR2-667MHz, Disk: 1000GB PERC 5/i, Graphics: AMD nee ATI ES1000 128MB, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-24-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 19.12 |=============================================== kvm ..... 25.08 |============================================================== kvm-lvm . 23.95 |=========================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better vmware .. 6781.56 |==================================== kvm ..... 6110.69 |================================ kvm-lvm . 5926.49 |=============================== host .... 11135.47 |=========================================================== BlogBench 1.0 Test: Read Final Score > Higher Is Better vmware .. 87258 |================= kvm ..... 75646 |=============== kvm-lvm . 74062 |============== host .... 318230 |============================================================= Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better vmware .. 482.12 |============================================= kvm ..... 657.30 |============================================================= kvm-lvm . 642.40 |============================================================ host .... 89.62 |======== CacheBench Test: Read MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 2246.08 |============================================================ kvm ..... 2245.97 |============================================================ kvm-lvm . 2245.15 |============================================================ host .... 2255.85 |============================================================ CacheBench Test: Write MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 10068.69 |=========================================================== kvm ..... 10064.58 |=========================================================== kvm-lvm . 9993.74 |=========================================================== host .... 9843.40 |========================================================== CacheBench Test: Read / Modify / Write MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 19306.03 |=========================================================== kvm ..... 19293.38 |=========================================================== kvm-lvm . 19294.04 |=========================================================== host .... 13395.27 |========================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 50.77 |========================== kvm ..... 39.29 |==================== kvm-lvm . 54.57 |============================ host .... 119.43 |============================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 51.91 |==================== kvm ..... 46.59 |================== kvm-lvm . 61.67 |======================= host .... 161.53 |============================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 189.14 |================================= kvm ..... 184.97 |================================ kvm-lvm . 172.23 |============================== host .... 351.80 |============================================================= Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.0.5 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better vmware .. 49.30 |============================================================ kvm ..... 51.29 |============================================================== kvm-lvm . 50.05 |============================================================= host .... 8.68 |========== Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 1 MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 211.26 |=============================== kvm ..... 165.26 |======================== kvm-lvm . 165.48 |======================== host .... 418.17 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 6 MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 376.59 |===================== kvm ..... 259.97 |============== kvm-lvm . 262.03 |============== host .... 1101.32 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 12 MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 365.61 |===================== kvm ..... 262.33 |=============== kvm-lvm . 262.84 |=============== host .... 1035.57 |============================================================ Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 48 MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 202.49 |============================ kvm ..... 176.59 |======================== kvm-lvm . 174.57 |======================== host .... 441.68 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 128 MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 91.38 |=================== kvm ..... 70.65 |=============== kvm-lvm . 95.91 |==================== host .... 294.87 |============================================================= Dbench 4.0 Client Count: 256 MB/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 52.98 |================== kvm ..... 36.83 |============ kvm-lvm . 60.28 |==================== host .... 181.23 |============================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 72.05 |============================================== kvm ..... 58.17 |===================================== kvm-lvm . 87.70 |======================================================== host .... 96.48 |============================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size, No Sync/FSync Files/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 75.37 |===== kvm ..... 75.58 |===== kvm-lvm . 88.73 |====== host .... 936.43 |============================================================= FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 68.27 |================================================== kvm ..... 65.97 |================================================ kvm-lvm . 85.13 |============================================================== host .... 66.13 |================================================ FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better vmware .. 70.85 |=============================================== kvm ..... 80.83 |====================================================== kvm-lvm . 83.03 |======================================================== host .... 92.60 |============================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better vmware .. 35117 |====================================== kvm ..... 35073 |====================================== kvm-lvm . 35598 |======================================= host .... 56827 |==============================================================