Quick Ubuntu 13.10 KVM Benchmarks

QEMU 1.5.0 testing on Ubuntu 13.10. Benchmarks of bare metal against a KVM guest through virt-manager on Ubuntu 13.10 using same packages all on a System76 Gazelle Pro laptop. Benchmarks by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.

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