KVM testing on CentOS Linux 7 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Intel Xeon: Processor: 2 x Intel Xeon (Cascadelake) @ 2.29GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX 1996), Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1 x 8192 MB RAM QEMU, Disk: 8GB, Graphics: Red Hat QXL paravirtual graphic card, Network: Red Hat Virtio device OS: CentOS Linux 7, Kernel: 3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8.5 20150623, File-System: xfs, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: KVM Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 5.4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Intel Xeon . 240.21 |==========================================================