mem KVM testing on Ubuntu 18.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: Processor: Intel Xeon Platinum 8124M (4 Cores / 8 Threads), Motherboard: Amazon EC2 c5.2xlarge (1.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 9GB Amazon Elastic Block Store, Network: Amazon Elastic OS: Ubuntu 18.04, Kernel: 4.15.0-1031-aws (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.0, File-System: ext4, System Layer: KVM RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Add - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS . 16993 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Copy - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS . 12395 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Scale - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS . 12403 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Triad - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS . 16238 |===================================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS . 14372 |=====================================================