OS X Moutain Lion Virtualization - VMware vs. VirtualBox
Oracle VM VirtualBox versus VMware Fusion 4 on OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion from a Retina MacBook Pro mid-2012. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS guest each time these results are looking at OpenGL pass-through performance for each virtual machine. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel of Phoronix.com for a future article.


VirtualBox 4.1: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.32GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: innotek VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 30GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: Chromium, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Monitor: VBOX monitor, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: vboxvideo 1.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900, System Layer: VirtualBox 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245

VMware Fusion 4.1.3: 

	Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 30GB VMware Virtual S, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit

	OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.10.0, Display Server: X Server 1.11.3, Display Driver: vmware 12.0.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900, System Layer: VMware


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 37.53 |==================================================
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 3.00  |====


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 . 37.73 |=======================================================


OpenArena 0.8.5
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 48.16  |=============
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 175.87 |=================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 23.47 |================
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 71.50 |==================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 22.67 |================
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 72.43 |==================================================


OpenArena 0.8.8
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 19.22 |===============
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 63.87 |==================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 40.87  |=============
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 152.28 |=================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 40.53  |=============
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 155.07 |=================================================


World of Padman 1.2
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 40.47  |=============
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 158.53 |=================================================


Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 22.13 |===========
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 97.13 |==================================================


Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 21.87 |============
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 92.30 |==================================================


Urban Terror 4.1
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 21.83 |===========
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 95.70 |==================================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 800 x 600
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 41.73 |=========================
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 84.30 |==================================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1024 x 768
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 41.97 |========================
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 86.23 |==================================================


Warsow 1.0
Resolution: 1440 x 900
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 ...... 42.27 |========================
VMware Fusion 4.1.3 . 86.93 |==================================================