kbuild VMware testing on CentOS 6.10 via the Phoronix Test Suite. test1: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX (6.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 215GB Virtual disk + 429GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM OS: CentOS 6.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-754.27.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: vmware 13.1.0, Compiler: GCC 4.9.1 20140922, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 2048x1536, System Layer: VMware test2: Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX (6.00 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 215GB Virtual disk + 429GB Virtual disk, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Network: Intel 82545EM OS: CentOS 6.10, Kernel: 2.6.32-754.27.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.17.4, Display Driver: vmware 13.1.0, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.7 Gallium 0.4 (LLVM 3.6 256 bits), Compiler: GCC 4.9.1 20140922, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3600x1080, System Layer: VMware Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better test1 . 165.38 |=============================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 4.18 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better test2 . 372.77 |===============================================================