Arnisoft » Virtualization http://arnisoft.com Software Development & Networkadministration Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:23:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Benchmark: VirtualBox vs VMware: Part2 2010 http://arnisoft.com/335/benchmark-virtualbox-vs-vmware-part2-2010/ http://arnisoft.com/335/benchmark-virtualbox-vs-vmware-part2-2010/#comments Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:43:59 +0000 devarni http://arnisoft.com/?p=335 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.

Host
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.10 64Bit (“Maverick”), 120GB SSD, 4GB RAM, Intel Core 2 Duo 6600

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.

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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
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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