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> You need to set a more specific goal.  Some questions to get started:
>  * Which workloads do you care about and what are their
> characteristics (sequential or random I/O, queue depth)?
>  * Do you care about 1 vcpu guests or 4+ vcpu guests?  (SMP scalability=
)
>  * Are you using an image format?

The usage would be a typical HPC workload: 4 vcpu in SMP and random IO on=
 raw
devices.

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