KVM Benchmarks On Ubuntu 14.10

Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 22 July 2014 at 12:30 PM EDT. Page 2 of 3. 9 Comments.
Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16
Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16
Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16

There's still a noticeable performance drop with the disk performance for the KVM guest configured using virt-manager defaults but there are opportunities to get better disk performance using VirtIO and also using a physical disk partition.

Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16
Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16
Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16
Ubuntu 14.10 Linux 3.16

For many of the CPU benchmarks, there was very little overhead for running Ubuntu 14.10 with KVM.


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