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.


Ubuntu 13.10: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-4900MQ @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: System76 Gazelle Professional, Chipset: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 120GB INTEL SSDSC2CW12, Graphics: Intel 4th Gen Core IGP (1300MHz), Audio: Intel Haswell HDMI, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-4-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.0, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: intel 2.21.14, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080

KVM: 

	Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.5.0 @ 2.79GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 32GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 21, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 13.10, Kernel: 3.11.0-4-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.0, Display Server: X Server 1.14.2.901 (1.14.3 RC 1), Display Driver: vmware 13.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.1.6 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2360x1770, System Layer: QEMU 1.5.0


AIO-Stress 0.21
Test: Random Write
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 657.71 |==========================================
KVM .......... 871.66 |========================================================


IOzone 3.405
Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 488.07 |========================================================
KVM .......... 303.22 |===================================


PostMark 1.51
Disk Transaction Performance
TPS > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 5208 |==========================================================
KVM .......... 4967 |=======================================================


Dolfyn 0.527
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 21.61 |========================================================
KVM .......... 22.05 |=========================================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 25.17 |=========================================================
KVM .......... 20.83 |===============================================


x264 2013-06-08
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 163.89 |========================================================
KVM .......... 130.08 |============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 84.48 |======================================================
KVM .......... 88.85 |=========================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 26.56 |========================================================
KVM .......... 26.97 |=========================================================


Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6
256MB File Compression
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 7.83 |=========================================================
KVM .......... 7.96 |==========================================================


Primesieve 4.2
1e12 Prime Number Generation
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 93.53 |========================================================
KVM .......... 94.97 |=========================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 99 |============================================================
KVM .......... 99 |============================================================


FFmpeg 2.0
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 13.47 |===================================================
KVM .......... 15.20 |=========================================================


OpenSSL 1.0.1c
RSA 4096-bit Performance
Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 144.17 |========================================================
KVM .......... 141.93 |=======================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.4.3
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 13.10 . 23252.44 |======================================================
KVM .......... 19426.32 |=============================================