discourse KVM testing on openSUSE Leap 42.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge) @ 2.69GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 23GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Audio: QEMU Generic, Network: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 OS: openSUSE Leap 42.2, Kernel: 4.4.36-8-default (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge) @ 2.69GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 23GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Audio: QEMU Generic, Network: Realtek RTL-8100/8101L/8139 OS: openSUSE Leap 42.2, Kernel: 4.4.36-8-default (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel .. 2793.56 |==================================== iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 2686.51 |=================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel .. 1798.31 |==================================== iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1689.94 |================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1840.03 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 2492.97 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1768.15 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1725.09 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 77.79 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 77.93 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 79.44 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 79.24 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 74.19 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 79.71 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 2956.30 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1498.25 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1724.58 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1892.82 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1959.85 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 2GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 77.63 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 4GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 79.74 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 8GB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 79.42 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 1MB - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 76.92 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 4Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 78.83 |====================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Read Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 1583.89 |==================================== IOzone 3.405 Record Size: 64Kb - File Size: 512MB - Disk Test: Write Performance MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 77.26 |====================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 13945.85 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 14463.09 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 14446.19 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 13997.41 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 14149.09 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 15919.48 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 14287.63 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 14193.95 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 15876.72 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 15045.03 |=================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 320.05 |===================================== Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better iozone, gzip, ramspeed, kernel1 . 9.94 |=======================================