Tag: VM
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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