Fedora 19 Linux 3.9 KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox Virtualization

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.

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Fedora 19 Linux 3.9 KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox Virtualization 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. ,,"Bare Metal","Linux KVM","Xen","VirtualBox" Processor,,Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.50GHz (8 Cores),QEMU Virtual 1.4.2 @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.49GHz (8 Cores),Intel Core i7-4770K @ 3.46GHz (8 Cores) Motherboard,,Intel DH87RL,Bochs,Xen HVM domU v4.2.2,Oracle VirtualBox v1.2 Chipset,,Intel Haswell DRAM,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC Memory,,15360MB,12288MB,12288MB,12288MB Disk,,240GB OCZ VERTEX3,16GB,16GB,24GB VBOX HDD Graphics,,Intel Haswell IGP,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe,LLVMpipe Audio,,Intel Haswell HDMI,Generic 1af4 ID 22,Ensoniq ES1370,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio Monitor,,VA2431,,, Network,,Intel Connection I217-V,Red Hat Virtio device,,Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS,,Fedora 19 (Schrdingers Cat),Fedora 19,Fedora 19,Fedora 19 Kernel,,3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64),3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64),3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64),3.9.8-300.fc19.x86_64 (x86_64) Desktop,,KDE 4.10.4,KDE 4.10.4,KDE 4.10.4,KDE 4.10.4 Display Server,,X Server 1.14.1,X Server 1.14.1,X Server 1.14.1,X Server 1.14.1 Display Driver,,intel 2.21.8,modesetting 0.6.0,modesetting 0.6.0,modesetting 0.6.0 Compiler,,GCC 4.8.1 20130603,GCC 4.8.1 20130603,GCC 4.8.1 20130603,GCC 4.8.1 20130603 File-System,,ext4,ext4,ext4,ext4 Screen Resolution,,1920x1080,1024x768,1024x768,1024x768 OpenGL,,,2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4,2.1 Mesa 9.2.0-devel Gallium 0.4 System Layer,,,KVM QEMU 1.4.2,Xen HVM domU 4.2.2,oracle VirtualBox ,,"Bare Metal","Linux KVM","Xen","VirtualBox" "TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,128.00,56.07,78.95,42.96 "VP8 libvpx Encoding - vpxenc (FPS)",HIB,26.26,21.82,22.99,15.07 "x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,159.62,130.51,147.58,76.31 "FFTE - Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine (MFLOPS)",HIB,6049.13,5912.76,5816.59,5316.36 "Himeno Benchmark - Poisson Pressure Solver (MFLOPS)",HIB,1496.78,1380.73,1433.27,1272.07 "John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,6558,6357,5669, "John The Ripper - Test: Traditional DES (Real C/S)",HIB,10123667,9808000,8731000, "John The Ripper - Test: MD5 (Real C/S)",HIB,41360,40512,39748, "NGINX Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,12850.36,10223.16,10199.95,5571.88 "OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,147.47,143.50,144.27,129.30 "PostMark - Disk Transaction Performance (TPS)",HIB,4121,3948,3409,2707 "BLAKE2 - Phoronix Test Suite v4.8.0m1 (Cycles/Byte)",LIB,5.29,,5.62,4.94 "Dolfyn - Computational Fluid Dynamics (sec)",LIB,29.12,29.20,30.22,37.64 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,10.27,10.80,11.28,16.31 "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment (sec)",LIB,5.64,6.66,6.85,22.79 "C-Ray - Total Time (sec)",LIB,22.96,23.61,23.97,33.82 "Parallel BZIP2 Compression - 256MB File Compression (sec)",LIB,8.78,9.22,9.40,13.87 "Smallpt - Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples (sec)",LIB,85,87,87,129 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,4.75,4.84,5.03,5.72 "FFmpeg - H.264 HD To NTSC DV (sec)",LIB,12.73,14.74,14.35,