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Windows 2012 R2 x64 guest
Let see if Windows guest has some surprise for us. Disk benchmark first:
This time, the fully virtualized IDE driver is much behind the para-virtualized driver. In other word: always install the paravirtualized driver when dealing with Windows guests.
Network, please:
The paravirtualized driver continues to be much better then the fully virtualized NICs.