The result of the file kernel-build-times-20-iterations.txt is obtained after running $ for i in {1..20}; do make clean; \ time make -j 3; done 2>&1 | tee \ defconfig-make-output-20-iterations-l2.txt in L2 (nested guest). And, then running: $ cat defconfig-make-output-20-iterations-l2.txt \ grep -i bzImage -A | tee \ kernel-build-times-20-iterations.txt