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,
"PHPBench 0.8.1 - PHP Benchmark Suite",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",320492,322483,284293,305838,328254,313236
"KVM 16 vCPUs",343184,336131,339711
"Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 - Static Web Page Serving",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",8132.62,8015.88,8153.5
"KVM 16 vCPUs",20183.03,20956.44,19737.15
"PyBench 2008-08-14 - Total For Average Test Times",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",1874,1873,1872
"KVM 16 vCPUs",1875,1869,1873
"Redis 3.0.1 - Test: SET",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",976562.44,1060445.38,1011122.31,1016260.12
"KVM 16 vCPUs",1153402.5,1182033.12,1194743.12
"Redis 3.0.1 - Test: GET",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",1180637.5,1133786.75,1230012.25,1424501.38,1362397.75,1161440.12
"KVM 16 vCPUs",1589825.12,1821493.5,2000000,1751313.5,1721170.5,1610306
"OpenSSL 1.0.1g - RSA 4096-bit Performance",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",1067.9,1093.3,1083.6
"KVM 16 vCPUs",1530.3,1481.8,1530.5
"LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 - WAV To MP3",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",12.248600006104,13.477858066559,12.488437891006,12.323126077652,12.584832906723,13.283565044403,12.31581902504,12.18399310112,12.40623497963,13.016753911972
"KVM 16 vCPUs",11.918280124664,11.962264060974,12.005378961563,12.047920942307,11.965042114258
"Primesieve 6.2 - 1e12 Prime Number Generation",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",34.71,34.4,39.917,36.337,34.568,34.495
"KVM 16 vCPUs",23.348,23.463,23.547
"Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 - Time To Compile",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",148.46316218376,138.45728302002,151.81498193741,142.18221092224,143.97246599197,126.4160220623
"KVM 16 vCPUs",79.111131906509,75.249375104904,74.670487880707
"ebizzy 0.3 - ",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",553148,533953,500355,530422,533703,538675
"KVM 16 vCPUs",858518,844321,876905
"7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 - Compress Speed Test",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",26521,27981,27829
"KVM 16 vCPUs",44721,41895,41928,42026
"x264 2017-09-08 - H.264 Video Encoding",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",165.82,171.96,170.56
"KVM 16 vCPUs",209.53,220.49,205.82,219.92
"TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a - Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",210.287,204.91,207.529
"KVM 16 vCPUs",277.208,258.665,258.398,258.491,257.559
"John The Ripper 1.8.0 - Test: Blowfish",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",6081,5825,5875
"KVM 16 vCPUs",12979,13075,12710
"Go Benchmarks - Test: garbage",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",2805723,2898609,2715498
"KVM 16 vCPUs",2141957,2204876,2205067
"Go Benchmarks - Test: build",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",26527631580,25942389318,25231348995
"KVM 16 vCPUs",20617067871,20667600872,20481044508
"Go Benchmarks - Test: json",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",10608210,11703548,10639870,11990589,12528311,12333653
"KVM 16 vCPUs",9208784,9256646,9111008
"Rodinia 2.4 - Test: OpenMP LavaMD",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",101.39348006248,100.23069381714,100.50759601593
"KVM 16 vCPUs",79.248475074768,79.766331911087,79.372552871704
"Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP Stencil",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",22.176399,25.696068,23.233383,22.948818,23.242523,27.877951
"KVM 16 vCPUs",15.800671,16.653845,16.758308
"Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP CUTCP",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",7.55792,7.817623,7.204575,7.75312,7.275348,7.827823
"KVM 16 vCPUs",5.941044,6.085907,6.031184
"Parboil 2.5 - Test: OpenMP LBM",
Lower Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",105.878922,104.078484,111.942139,100.735039,101.972725,111.293472
"KVM 16 vCPUs",57.953716,57.220783,56.820038
"NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 - Test / Class: EP.C",
Higher Results Are Better
"VirtualBox 16 vCPUs",420.1,423.2,319.93,422.03,310.36,415.9
"KVM 16 vCPUs",406.05,393.92,375.87,396.87