net2 KVM testing on Amazon Linux 2 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 Ubuntu 18.04: 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: 13GB 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 Amazon Linux 2: 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: Amazon Linux 2, Kernel: 4.14.88-88.76.amzn2.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 7.3.1 20180303, File-System: xfs, System Layer: KVM iPerf 3.1.3 Server Address: 54.187.129.204 - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 60 Seconds - Test: TCP - Parallel: 10 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 LTS . 66.10 |===================================================== iPerf 3.1.3 Server Address: 54.189.183.155 - Server Port: 5201 - Duration: 60 Seconds - Test: TCP - Parallel: 20 Mbits/sec > Higher Is Better Ubuntu 18.04 ... 117 |========================================================= Amazon Linux 2 . 112 |=======================================================