Ubuntu 8.04 KVM (Virtualization) Benchmarks

news · May 15, 2008

At Phoronix we have posted a new article. A link to this from your

site's news section would be greatly appreciated.

Title: Ubuntu 8.04 KVM Benchmarks ( -at -) Phoronix

Summary: "Back in January of 2007 we had looked at Linux Virtualization

Performance as we had compared a running native OS (at that time, Fedora

Core 6) against the same operating system running as a virtualized guest

OS using Xen, QEMU with the (once closed-source) kqemu kernel module,

and then KVM. In this testing we had found that KVM had performed well

and won a number of the tests, but it wasn't the clear winner nor it had

won by a substantial margin. However, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine

had premiered with the Linux 2.6.20 kernel and it has matured quite a

bit over the past year and a half since its christening. With that said,

we are in the process of conducting new Linux virtualization benchmarks

to see how these various implementations compare today. While the full

comparison isn't yet ready, due to much interest surrounding Linux

virtualization on desktops and servers, this morning we are publishing

some initial benchmarks from the Phoronix Test Suite when running Ubuntu

8.04 LTS as the host OS and then running it as the guest operating

system with hardware-based acceleration through KVM."

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