Ubuntu 15.10: KVM vs. Xen vs. VirtualBox Virtualization Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 22 October 2015 at 01:00 PM EDT. Page 4 of 5. 32 Comments.
Benchmark Result
Benchmark Result

KVM was faster than Xen at the MAFFT scientific test while VirtualBox 5.0 was nearly twice as slow.

Benchmark Result

On this Haswell Xeon system, KVM was faster than Xen and VirtualBox.

Benchmark Result

Xen scored a win past KVM when it came to the GraphicsMagick image resizing test.

Benchmark Result

There wasn't a huge performance difference in the largely single-threaded Himeno pressure solver.


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