qcow2
VMware testing on Ubuntu 14.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite.


2015-06-12 19:20: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 13GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware

2015-06-13 15:41: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 13GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware

QCOW2: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 13GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware

LVM: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-38-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: VMware

RAW: 

	Processor: 2 x Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) @ 2.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 6GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Audio: Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW, Network: Red Hat Virtio device

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.16.0-30-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768


Apache Benchmark 2.4.7
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
2015-06-12 19:20 . 8270.31 |==================================================
LVM .............. 8339.77 |===================================================
RAW .............. 8398.02 |===================================================


Unpacking The Linux Kernel
linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2
Seconds < Lower Is Better
2015-06-13 15:41 . 15.21 |=====================================================
QCOW2 ............ 14.46 |==================================================
LVM .............. 15.22 |=====================================================
RAW .............. 15.00 |====================================================


Stream 2013-01-17
Type: Copy
MB/s > Higher Is Better
QCOW2 . 12793.79 |=========================================================
LVM ... 13055.42 |==========================================================
RAW ... 13780.36 |=============================================================