a KVM testing on Ubuntu 16.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. a: Processor: POWER8E @ 3.43GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: CHRP IBM p (emulated by qemu), Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 47GB, Graphics: OFfb vga, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 16.04, Kernel: 4.4.0-31-generic (ppc64le), Compiler: GCC 5.4.0 20160609, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 800x600, System Layer: KVM Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better a . 99 |=======================================================================