Ubuntu 14.10 KVM Virtualization Testing Early Ubuntu 14.04 LTS virtualization benchmarks on KVM versus bare metal. More tests on the way. Testing by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article. Bare Metal: Processor: Intel Core i7-4960X @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: MSI X79MA-GD45 (MS-7738) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Xeon E5 v2/Core, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 1000GB Seagate ST1000DX001-1CM1, Graphics: Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 4870 512MB, Audio: Realtek ALC892, Monitor: DELL S2409W, Network: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: radeon 7.2.0, OpenGL: 3.1 Mesa 10.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 QEMU-KVM: Processor: QEMU Virtual 1.7.0 @ 3.60GHz (12 Cores), Motherboard: Bochs, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 81GB, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Generic 1af4 ID 22, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.12.0-7-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 7.1.2, Display Server: X Server 1.14.4, Display Driver: cirrus 1.5.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 10.0.0 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: QEMU 1.7.0 AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 95.46 |=========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 85.49 |===================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 16.70 |=========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 15.18 |====================================================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 5000 Files, 1MB Size, 4 Threads Files/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 53.00 |=========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 26.80 |============================== FS-Mark 3.3 Test: 4000 Files, 32 Sub Dirs, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 20.33 |===================================== QEMU-KVM ... 32.58 |=========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 176.47 |========================================== QEMU-KVM ... 246.08 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 164.58 |========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 165.70 |========================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 851.08 |========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 640.46 |============================================ PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 4491 |============================================================ QEMU-KVM ... 4054 |====================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 16718.56 |======================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 12720.82 |======================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 14358.86 |======================================================== Stream 2013-01-17 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 14206.94 |======================================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-HPL GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 65.86 |=========================================================== HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ffte GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 3.16790 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-DGEMM GFLOPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 6.52924 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Ptrans GB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 1.61334 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: EP-STREAM Triad GB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 1.18694 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: G-Random Access GUP/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 0.06914 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Random Ring Latency usecs < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 0.78240 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Random Ring Bandwidth GB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 0.55131 |========================================================= HPC Challenge 1.4.3 Test / Class: Max Ping Pong Bandwidth MB/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 12918.83 |======================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 238.80 |======================================================= QEMU-KVM ... 249.88 |========================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 9.45 |==================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 10.72 |=========================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 26.42 |=================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 30.74 |=========================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Leukocyte Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 22.88 |=========================================== QEMU-KVM ... 31.23 |=========================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP CFD Solver Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 63.11 |==================================== QEMU-KVM ... 101.21 |========================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP Streamcluster Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 32.65 |====================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 35.53 |=========================================================== TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2z Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 169.33 |========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 71.86 |========================= VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0 vpxenc Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 30.66 |=========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 22.23 |=========================================== x264 2013-06-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 237.84 |========================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 59.51 |======================================================= QEMU-KVM ... 64.39 |=========================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 17.27 |======================================================= QEMU-KVM ... 18.63 |=========================================================== Parallel BZIP2 Compression 1.1.6 256MB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 4.74 |========================================================= QEMU-KVM ... 5.00 |============================================================ Open Porous Media 2013-11-26 OPM Benchmark: Upscale-Relperm Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 54.71 |========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 55.91 |=========================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 13.10 |========================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 13.25 |=========================================================== FFmpeg 2.0 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal . 16.55 |======================================================== QEMU-KVM ... 17.35 |=========================================================== Hierarchical INTegration 1.0 Test: FLOAT QUIPs > Higher Is Better Bare Metal . 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