aio VMware testing on CentOS 5.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. Virtual disk: Processor: Intel Xeon E5606 @ 2.13GHz (8 Cores), Chipset: Intel 440BX/ZX/DX, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 161GB Virtual disk, Graphics: VMware SVGA II, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: CentOS 5.8, Kernel: 2.6.18-308.el5 (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.1.2 20080704, File-System: ext3, System Layer: VMware AIO-Stress 0.21 Test: Random Write MB/s > Higher Is Better Virtual disk . 127.84 |========================================================