Re: Benchmark

On Jun 6, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Maho NAKATA wrote:

> From: Scott Long <scottl_at_samsco.org>
> Subject: Re: Benchmark [Re: [Call For Testing] VirtualBox for  
> FreeBSD! take 4]
> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:44:24 -0600
>
>> Maho NAKATA wrote:
>>> I did a benchmark with Virtualbox:
>>> My environment:
>>> * Core 2 Quad, Q6600_at_3GHz
>>> * Windows XP SP3_at_host SP2_at_VBOX with GuestAddon
>>> * http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalMark/
>>>  CrystalMark 2004R3
>>> * Sapphire X1650
>>> * VBOX is running on FBSD7.2-REL/amd64
>>>  using http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/vbox/virtualbox_5.tgz
>>> * Running with fullscreen mode 1280x1024 32bit
>>> Here is the result
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>>      host(4CPU) host(1CPU) vbox(1CPU)
>>> [...]
>>> HDD      9336        9331    30600(*)
>>> -----------------------------------------
>>> (*)somehow lot faster
>>> I don't know how to use two CPUs, even changing setting
>>> doesn't change.
>>> Usually I cannot usually launch VirtualBox even by root.
>>> A workaround is that invoking and killing VirtualBox
>>> many times for me. After some tries I can launch...
>>> thanks
>>>
I've seen similar crazy results in VMware Fusion. I reckon it has  
something to do with sparse disks *in my case*, at least. I ran HD  
Tune in a Windows VM, and got ~600MB/s out of a 5400rpm laptop hard  
drive. Natively, I get about 35MB/s, go figure. :)

Regards, Thomas