[wplug] VmWare
Patrick Wagstrom
patrick at wagstrom.net
Wed Feb 27 12:07:29 EST 2008
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Sam Al-Droubi <saldroubi at yahoo.com
> <mailto:saldroubi at yahoo.com>> wrote:
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> I have used both vmware server, vmware workstation and virtualbox.
> I found that virtualbox was easier to setup on both Windows and
> Linux hosts. Additionally, I feel that virtualbox performs better
> than vmware but I did not benchmark this myself. Lastly, virtualbox
> is open-source. Check out this link for benchmark results if you
> are interested:
>
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=257727
>
>
> I don't see any real benchmarks, just people saying what felt faster and
> whatnot.
>
> http://www.linux-gamers.net/smartsection.item.56/virtualbox-vs-qemu.html
> has numbers. The bold numbers tell you who wins. Looks like Qemu still
> wins on most of them, but the ones where it loses, it loses *bad*. If
> you don't need graphics, Qemu might be best. Virtualbox is the fastest
> on graphics, though. VMWare just plain sucks. It won in one event, and
> that was Download Speed.
Not to sound like a VMWare apologist here, but the test was done,
admittedly by the authors of test, without the VMWare accelerated drivers.
That makes a huge difference. Also, they tested the free version of
VMWare, not VMWare Workstation, which gets you some other nice features and
a speed bonus.
--Patrick
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