Benchmark
Benchmark: VirtualBox vs VMware: Part2 2010
by devarni on 29 October 2010, under Benchmark, Virtualization
VirtualBox vs VMware: part 2010 
Because the free Vmware Player now supports also the creating of virtual machines, it’s
time to make another short benchmark.
Guest Windows 7 64Bit Home, 2xCPU, 2GB RAM, 20GB virtual HD on 1TB Samsung Spinpoint HD
Virtual Machines (64Bit) VirtualBox 3.2.1, VMware Player 3.1.2
Windows 7 Performance Index
| VirtualBox | VMware | |
| CPU | 5,5 | 5,5 |
| RAM | 5,5 | 5,5 |
| Graphic | 1,0 | 4,2 |
| Graphic (Games) | 1,0 | 3,4 |
| Harddisk | 5,9 | 6,0 |
| Performance Index: | 1,0 | 3,4 |
Crystal Disk Mark 3.0
| VirtualBox | VmWare Player | |||
| Read | Write | Read | Write | |
| Seq | 115.8 | 34.61 | 122.1 | 54.81 |
| 512k | 60.31 | 30.80 | 43.69 | 53.45 |
| 4k | 0.858 | 0.718 | 1.004 | 11.78 |
| 4k QD32 | 0.950 | 0.911 | 1.129 | 19.13 |
Summary
There is no difference for the computing performance. VirtualBox and VMware playing at the same level.
For graphic performance/support VMware wins. VirtualBox 3D support is only rudimentary and does not work for Windows Airo (so the bad performance index for graphics).
The disk/caching performance of VMware is better.
The overall performance of VMware Player is better then VirtualBox.
If you need 3D support eg. for Windows 7 Airo as a guest, VMware is the only solution.
If you need snapshots VirtualBox wins, for such features you need VMware Workstation.
Benchmark: VirtualBox vs VMware
by devarni on 10 March 2009, under Benchmark
Benchmark VirtualBox 2.1.4 vs VMware Workstation 6.5.1
Host: Ubuntu64, 4GB RAM, Core2Duo E6600, Samsung HD502IJ
Guest: Windows XP Home, 1GB RAM, 8GB virtual disk
Benchmark Software: SiSoft Sandra Light, HD Tune
Short benchmark of this both VM
| VirtualBox | VMware Workstation | |
| HDTune | ||
| Min (MB/s) | 26 | 5,7 |
| Max (MB/s) | 250 | 803 |
| Average (MB/s) | 177 | 392 |
| Access time (ms) | 0,4 | 0,2 |
| Burst rate (MB/s) | 129 | 488 |
| CPU Usage | 56% | 17% |
Sisoft Sandra |
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| Dhrystone ALU (GIPS) | 22,70 | 7,35 (*7,34) |
| Whetstone iSSE3 (GFlops) | 18,64 | 6,26 (*5,92) |
| Multimedia: Integer (MPixel/s) | 77,21 | 15,76 (*16,90) |
| Multimedia: Floating Point (MPixel/s) | 45,77 | 10,04 (*10,19) |
| Multimedia: Double (MPixel/s) | 23,96 | 5,14 (*4,28) |
| Physical Drives (MB/s) | 109 | 357 |
| Combined Performance Index | 671 | 802 |
*) Dual CPU Mode
Resumee
VirtualBox shows better computing performance, which benefits for desktop applications and multmedia based operations. Interesting: the dual CPU mode in Vwmare has no advantage over the single CPU mode.
Certainly we can say: Virtualbox for desktop applications, Vmware for server but for the combined performance VMware ist the winner.
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