Ubuntu 17.10 AMD EPYC HOst Oracle VirtualBox testing on Ubuntu 17.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Bare Metal Host: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (32 Cores / 64 Threads), Motherboard: TYAN B8026T70AE24HR, Chipset: AMD Device 1450, Memory: 129024MB, Disk: 280GB INTEL SSDPE21D280GA, Graphics: llvmpipe 128896MB, Monitor: VE228, Network: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme BCM5720 Gigabit PCIe OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171227, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Driver: modesetting 1.19.5, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 128 bits), OpenCL: OpenCL 1.2 pocl 1.0 LLVM 5.0.0, Compiler: GCC 7.2.0 + Clang 5.0.0-3 + LLVM 5.0.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 KVM: Processor: 64 x AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) @ 2.20GHz (64 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 97280MB, Disk: 113GB, Graphics: llvmpipe 96768MB, Audio: QEMU Generic, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.15.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20171227, Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.2, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM VirtualBox 16 vCPUs: Processor: AMD EPYC 7601 32-Core @ 2.20GHz (16 Cores), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 97280MB, Disk: 123GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: InnoTek VirtualBox, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Monitor: VBOX monitor, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 17.10, Kernel: 4.13.0-16-generic (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.26.1, Display Server: Wayland, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 17.2.2 (LLVM 5.0 128 bits), Compiler: GCC 7.2.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1848x983, System Layer: Oracle VirtualBox NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3 Test / Class: EP.C Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 1623.34 |================================================ KVM ................. 1436.51 |========================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 385.25 |=========== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP LBM Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 39.55 |================== KVM ................. 73.75 |================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 105.98 |================================================= Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP CUTCP Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 2.67 |================== KVM ................. 3.07 |===================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 7.57 |=================================================== Parboil 2.5 Test: OpenMP Stencil Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 14.00 |============================= KVM ................. 10.39 |===================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 24.20 |================================================== Rodinia 2.4 Test: OpenMP LavaMD Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 31.63 |=============== KVM ................. 30.48 |=============== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 100.71 |================================================= Go Benchmarks Test: json Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 3875482 |================ KVM ................. 3700334 |=============== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 11634030 |=============================================== Go Benchmarks Test: build Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 18467876855 |=============================== KVM ................. 20182395950 |================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 25900456631 |============================================ Go Benchmarks Test: garbage Nanoseconds/Operation < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 1246512 |===================== KVM ................. 1300919 |====================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 2806610 |================================================ Cpuminer-Opt Algorithm: deep Hash Speed > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 13.17 | VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 3954.05 |================================================ Cpuminer-Opt Algorithm: lbry Hash Speed > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 32.51 | VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 5217.82 |================================================ Cpuminer-Opt Algorithm: cryptonight Hash Speed > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 751.78 |================================================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 420.01 |=========================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 23469 |================================== KVM ................. 34770 |================================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 5927 |========= TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.3a Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping FPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 444.64 |================================================= KVM ................. 385.84 |=========================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 207.58 |======================= x264 2017-09-08 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 305.99 |================================================= KVM ................. 250.30 |======================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 169.45 |=========================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 93261 |================================================== KVM ................. 92131 |================================================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 27444 |=============== ebizzy 0.3 Records/s > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 1108458 |============================================== KVM ................. 1145988 |================================================ VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 531709 |====================== Timed GCC Compilation 7.2 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 856.32 |========================== KVM ................. 854.54 |========================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 1560.25 |================================================ Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.13 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 38.04 |============= KVM ................. 40.48 |============== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 141.88 |================================================= Primesieve 6.2 1e12 Prime Number Generation Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 12.15 |================= KVM ................. 11.93 |================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 35.74 |================================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.5 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 11.39 |============================================= KVM ................. 12.06 |================================================ VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 12.63 |================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 3245.67 |================================================ KVM ................. 3218.23 |================================================ VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 1081.60 |================ Redis 3.0.1 Test: GET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 1546484.04 |=========================================== KVM ................. 1625322.10 |============================================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 1248795.96 |=================================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 1211153.54 |============================================= KVM ................. 1202249.50 |============================================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 1016097.56 |====================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 1789 |================================================= KVM ................. 1869 |=================================================== VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 1873 |=================================================== Apache Benchmark 2.4.7 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 19978.67 |=============================================== KVM ................. 18951.53 |============================================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 8100.67 |=================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Bare Metal Host ..... 340645 |================================================= KVM ................. 339321 |================================================= VirtualBox 16 vCPUs . 312433 |=============================================