Ubuntu 11.10: Xen vs. KVM vs. VirtualBox Written by Michael Larabel in Software on 31 October 2011 at 05:00 AM EDT. Page 1 of 7. 27 Comments. While last week I showed how Ubuntu's performance has evolved as a KVM guest from Ubuntu 8.04 through Ubuntu 11.10, in today's article is a Linux virtualization showdown between VirtualBox, Xen, and KVM while using Ubuntu 11.10 on the Linux 3.0 kernel. This