KVM Virtualization Performance With Linux 2.6.31
Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 21 September 2009 at 05:48 PM EDT. Page 4 of 6. 28 Comments.
The performance of the Crafty chess engine was roughly the same between the guest and host.
Converting RAW image files to PPM using dcraw took noticeably more time when virtualized.
The LAME MP3 encoding performance was roughly the same.