test VirtualBox testing on Debian 6.0.5 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtualbox: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.36GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 9GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: InnoTek VirtualBox, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Driver: vboxvideo 1.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: xfs, System Layer: VirtualBox VMware 4 cores: Processor: Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Intel 440BX, Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 1 x 1024 MB DRAM, Disk: 9GB VMware Virtual S + 9GB VMware Virtual I, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Audio: Ensoniq ES1371, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Debian 6.0.5, Kernel: 2.6.32-5-amd64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Driver: vmware 11.0.1, Compiler: GCC 4.4.5, File-System: xfs, System Layer: VMware Apache Benchmark 2.2.21 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtualbox ..... 11598.85 |======================================= VMware 4 cores . 15346.21 |==================================================== Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.6.3-4 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtualbox . 49.75 |=========================================================== Timed PHP Compilation 5.2.9 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtualbox . 28.01 |=========================================================== FFmpeg 0.10 AVI To NTSC VCD Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtualbox . 9.02 |============================================================ GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Blur Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 122 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Sharpen Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 84 |============================================================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 117 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: HWB Color Space Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 169 |============================================================= GraphicsMagick 1.3.12 Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 84 |============================================================== NGINX Benchmark 1.0.11 Static Web Page Serving Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtualbox ..... 16241.05 |================= VMware 4 cores . 48839.33 |==================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Virtualbox ..... 106.15 |===================================================== VMware 4 cores . 108.05 |====================================================== PHPBench 0.8.1 PHP Benchmark Suite Score > Higher Is Better Virtualbox ..... 87918 |=============================================== VMware 4 cores . 101960 |====================================================== POV-Ray 3.6.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtualbox . 581 |============================================================= Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Copy MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 12809.28 |======================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Scale MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 11855.46 |======================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Triad MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 12960.63 |======================================================== Stream 2009-04-11 Type: Add MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 12579.13 |======================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 2089.27 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 1088.63 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 322.51 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 188.09 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 312.27 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 342.47 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 347.61 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 271.93 |========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 1805.87 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 1384.04 |========================================================= Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 48.41 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Read - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 16.06 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 4 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 72.42 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 8 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 70.26 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 16 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 58.03 |=========================================================== Threaded I/O Tester 0.3.3 Test: Random Write - Size Per Thread: 64MB - Thread Count: 32 MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtualbox . 43.95 |=========================================================== Unpacking The Linux Kernel linux-2.6.32.tar.bz2 Seconds < Lower Is Better Virtualbox . 306.31 |==========================================================