Performance Overhead and Comparative Performance of 4 Virtualization Solutions

Virtualization is being sold as a solution for data center hardware idleness. Increasing the hardware usage level from less than 20% to more than 70% is possible with virtualization solutions. This may represent advantages like more available computing power and less servers consuming electricity, space and services. But at what cost? What is the price of virtualization solutions in terms of computing power and I/O consumption? What is the overhead of the virtualization layer? 

Sample graph showing read performance for Linux

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