KVM Virtualization Performance With Linux 2.6.31

Running the SQLite test produced significantly better results when running under the virtual machine compared to the host. The SQLite performance we have seen sway substantially between kernel releases and file-systems, but with the virtualization performance, its doing much better this way compared to the host OS with both using the Linux 2.6.31 kernel and EXT4 file-system.

The Apache benchmarking performance had dropped substantially.

It took only a few more seconds to build Apache within the VM compared to the host.