buildtest-1 \Inside 6 core/16GB VM Build linux kernel on bare metal: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 UNIFY (MS-7C35) v2.0 (A.30 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB + 1024GB ADATA SX8200PNP + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB Seagate ST240HM000-1G515, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, Audio: NVIDIA GP104 HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Fedora 32, Kernel: 5.6.14-300.fc32.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 10.1.1 20200507, File-System: ext4 AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 UNIFY (MS-7C35) v2.0 (A.30 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB + 1024GB ADATA SX8200PNP + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB Seagate ST240HM000-1G515, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, Audio: NVIDIA GP104 HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Fedora 32, Kernel: 5.6.14-300.fc32.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 10.1.1 20200507, File-System: ext4 With VM running: Processor: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core @ 3.80GHz (12 Cores / 24 Threads), Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 UNIFY (MS-7C35) v2.0 (A.30 BIOS), Chipset: AMD Starship/Matisse, Memory: 32768MB, Disk: 1000GB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB + 1024GB ADATA SX8200PNP + 250GB Samsung SSD 850 + 240GB Seagate ST240HM000-1G515, Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, Audio: NVIDIA GP104 HD Audio, Network: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE + Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 OS: Fedora 32, Kernel: 5.6.14-300.fc32.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 10.1.1 20200507, File-System: ext4 Inside VM: Processor: QEMU Virtual 2.5+ (6 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9 2009) (0.0.0 BIOS), Chipset: Intel 82G33/G31/P35/P31 + ICH9, Memory: 16384MB, Disk: 21GB, Graphics: eVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB (1176/2700MHz), Audio: QEMU Generic, Monitor: SAMSUNG, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: Fedora 32, Kernel: 5.6.12-300.fc32.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.36.2, Display Server: X Server 1.20.8, Display Driver: NVIDIA 440.82, OpenGL: 4.6.0, Compiler: GCC 10.1.1 20200507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 3840x2160, System Layer: QEMU Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Build linux kernel on bare metal . 51.15 |=============== AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core ........ 51.54 |=============== With VM running .................. 51.72 |=============== Inside VM ........................ 125.08 |====================================