Ubuntu 12.10 Virtualization vs. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, CentOS 6.3
The Ubuntu 12.10 KVM virtualization performance fell back heavily compared to the bare metal numbers.
Ubuntu 12.10 was the slowest when it came to the solitaire test within Minion.
More Ubuntu 12.10 KVM virtualization benchmark results from the Core i7 against Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS and CentOS 6.3 can be found from this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.
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