Intel Core i7-4770K testing on Fedora 19 x86_64 with KVM and Xen and VirtualBox virtualization. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
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phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1307064-SO-VIRTFEDOR07
Fedora 19 Linux 3.9 KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox Virtualization,
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",127.116,127.457,129.426
"Linux KVM",56.1205,56.0903,55.9935
"Xen",79.0389,79.0476,78.7737
"VirtualBox",43.0337,42.9646,42.8798
"VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 - vpxenc",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",26.01,26.39,26.39
"Linux KVM",22.12,21.56,21.79
"Xen",22.75,23.02,23.2
"VirtualBox",15,15.13,15.08
"x264 2013-06-08 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",156.14,159.14,160.56,160.85,161.39
"Linux KVM",128.25,131.13,131.88,131.03,130.25
"Xen",142.07,149.38,148.14,148.97,149.33
"VirtualBox",73.2,77.05,76.56,77.46,77.3
"FFTE 5.0 - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",6051.4103514118,6051.1856557186,6044.7793321626
"Linux KVM",5894.1508652044,5943.8091415033,5900.322475314
"Xen",5790.2471077021,5829.0953492387,5830.4183348548
"VirtualBox",5174.4999433608,5420.0276472662,5354.5393774574
"Himeno Benchmark 3.0 - Poisson Pressure Solver",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",1497.611102,1466.867197,1525.86172
"Linux KVM",1457.85884,1025.093027,1452.81477,1483.602341,1365.689018,1499.327163
"Xen",1411.591951,1439.387049,1448.839355
"VirtualBox",1251.826434,1278.056291,1286.334463
"John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",6558,6558,6558
"Linux KVM",6320,6432,6320
"Xen",5280,5702,5760,5702,5808,5760
"John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: Traditional DES",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",9928000,10187000,10256000
"Linux KVM",9797000,9764000,9863000
"Xen",8597000,8847000,8749000
"John The Ripper 1.7.9-jumbo-7 - Test: MD5",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",41172,41928,40980
"Linux KVM",40560,40752,40224
"Xen",40416,39372,39456
"NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",13055.34,12751.25,12744.49
"Linux KVM",10306.08,10241.29,10122.11
"Xen",10111.29,10135.62,10352.94
"VirtualBox",5576.14,5555.96,5583.53
"OpenSSL 1.0.1c - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",148.6,147.7,146.1
"Linux KVM",144.7,141.1,144.7
"Xen",142.7,147.4,142.7
"VirtualBox",128.1,128.9,130.9
"PostMark 1.51 - Disk Transaction Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",4098,4098,4166
"Linux KVM",3906,3906,4032
"Xen",3424,3378,3424
"VirtualBox",2717,2688,2717
"BLAKE2 20121223 - Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m1",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",5.29,5.29,5.29
"Xen",5.86,5.14,5.86,5.44,6.25,5.14
"VirtualBox",4.91,4.88,5.03
"Dolfyn 0.527 - Computational Fluid Dynamics",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",27.688835144043,29.658086061478,29.283270835876,29.834898948669
"Linux KVM",28.79846906662,28.602573871613,30.185187101364
"Xen",30.234102010727,30.246928930283,30.190483093262
"VirtualBox",38.594160079956,36.334937095642,37.985102891922
"Timed HMMer Search 2.3.2 - Pfam Database Search",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",10.28565788269,10.26016497612,10.25688791275
"Linux KVM",11.045650005341,10.649579048157,10.700402021408
"Xen",11.575912952423,11.165141820908,11.100862026215
"VirtualBox",16.778007030487,16.158545017242,15.98955488205
"Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 - Multiple Sequence Alignment",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",5.3353650569916,5.9059062004089,5.8548309803009,5.9646279811859,5.491751909256,5.3060967922211
"Linux KVM",6.1875319480896,6.6716740131378,6.3242440223694,7.7045209407806,6.1221570968628,6.9254930019379
"Xen",6.4334819316864,7.3447949886322,6.7767689228058,6.6572020053864,6.5183439254761,7.3970909118652
"VirtualBox",23.041813135147,22.627227067947,22.704805850983
"C-Ray 1.1 - Total Time",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",22.96,22.96,22.964
"Linux KVM",23.573,23.595,23.66
"Xen",23.956,24.045,23.917
"VirtualBox",33.941,33.724,33.796
"Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 - 256MB File Compression",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",8.6440801620483,8.8422009944916,8.8567969799042
"Linux KVM",9.238951921463,9.2790718078613,9.1511709690094
"Xen",9.5194118022919,9.3558449745178,9.3349030017853
"VirtualBox",13.95098400116,13.841930866241,13.821527957916
"Smallpt 1.0 - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",92,83,84,84,83,83
"Linux KVM",88,87,86
"Xen",87,87,87
"VirtualBox",129,129,130
"FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.0 - WAV To FLAC",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",4.7736830711365,4.7737848758698,4.6957700252533,4.7141809463501,4.769544839859
"Linux KVM",4.8770589828491,4.7880449295044,4.8576600551605,4.7925620079041,4.8727159500122
"Xen",5.0886168479919,5.0569639205933,5.0110759735107,4.9853339195251,5.0305509567261
"VirtualBox",5.8393290042877,5.6009590625763,5.6841859817505,5.7855730056763,5.674220085144
"FFmpeg 1.1 - H.264 HD To NTSC DV",
Lower Results Are Better
"Bare Metal",13.045344829559,12.583633184433,12.569041967392
"Linux KVM",15.060618162155,14.541535139084,14.615207910538
"Xen",14.618736028671,14.22425699234,14.218662977219