KVM testing on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.
Compare your own system(s) to this result file with the
Phoronix Test Suite by running the command:
phoronix-test-suite benchmark 1712296-AL-VM226275415
Ubuntu 17.10 KVM vs. VirtualBox On EPYC
KVM testing on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite.
,,"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs","KVM 16 vCPUs"
Processor,,AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (16 Cores),16 x AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) @ 2.20GHz (16 Cores)
Motherboard,,Oracle VirtualBox v1.2,QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996)
Chipset,,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC,Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC
Memory,,97280MB,10240MB
Disk,,123GB VBOX HDD,113GB
Graphics,,InnoTek VirtualBox,llvmpipe 9600MB
Audio,,Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio,QEMU Generic
Monitor,,VBOX monitor,
Network,,Intel 82540EM Gigabit,Red Hat Virtio device
OS,,Ubuntu 17.10,Ubuntu 17.10
Kernel,,4.13.0-16-generic (x86_64),4.13.0-16-generic (x86_64)
Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.26.1,GNOME Shell 3.26.1
Display Server,,Wayland,Wayland
OpenGL,,3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 128 bits),3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 128 bits)
Compiler,,GCC 7.2.0,GCC 7.2.0
File-System,,ext4,ext4
Screen Resolution,,1848x983,1024x768
System Layer,,Oracle VirtualBox,KVM
,,"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs","KVM 16 vCPUs"
"Apache Benchmark - Static Web Page Serving (Reqs/sec)",HIB,8100.67,20292.21
"John The Ripper - Test: Blowfish (Real C/S)",HIB,5927,12921
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP LBM (sec)",LIB,105.98,57.33
"ebizzy - (Records/s)",HIB,531709,859915
"7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,27444,42643
"OpenSSL - RSA 4096-bit Performance (Signs/sec)",HIB,1081.60,1514.20
"Go Benchmarks - Test: garbage (ns/op)",LIB,2806610,2183967
"Rodinia - Test: OpenMP LavaMD (sec)",LIB,100.71,79.46
"x264 - H.264 Video Encoding (FPS)",HIB,169.45,213.94
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping (FPS)",HIB,207.58,262.06
"Go Benchmarks - Test: build (ns/op)",LIB,25900456631,20588571084
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP CUTCP (sec)",LIB,7.57,6.02
"Redis - Test: SET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1016097.56,1176726.25
"PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,312433,339675
"LAME MP3 Encoding - WAV To MP3 (sec)",LIB,12.63,11.98
"PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,1873,1872
"Redis - Test: GET (Reqs/sec)",HIB,1248795.96,1749018.10
"Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,35.74,23.45
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation - Time To Compile (sec)",LIB,141.88,76.34
"Go Benchmarks - Test: json (ns/op)",LIB,11634030,9192146
"Parboil - Test: OpenMP Stencil (sec)",LIB,24.20,16.40
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks - Test / Class: EP.C (Mop/s)",HIB,385.25,393.18