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.
HTML result view exported from: https://openbenchmarking.org/result/1208030-SU-VIRTVMGL638&sor&grr .
OS X Moutain Lion Virtualization - VMware vs. VirtualBox Processor Motherboard Chipset Memory Disk Graphics Audio Monitor Network OS Kernel Desktop Display Server Display Driver OpenGL Compiler File-System Screen Resolution System Layer VirtualBox 4.1 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.32GHz (8 Cores) innotek VirtualBox v1.2 Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC 6144MB 30GB VBOX HDD Chromium Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio VBOX monitor Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ubuntu 12.04 3.2.0-23-generic (x86_64) Unity 5.10.0 X Server 1.11.3 vboxvideo 1.0.1 2.1 GCC 4.6 ext4 1440x900 VirtualBox 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245 Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores) Intel 440BX Intel 440BX/ZX/DX 30GB VMware Virtual S VMware SVGA II Ensoniq ES1371 Intel 82545EM Gigabit vmware 12.0.1 2.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.4 VMware OpenBenchmarking.org Compiler Details - --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-nls --enable-objc-gc --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic -v Graphics Details - VirtualBox 4.1: ShadowFB System Details - Compiz was running on this system.
OS X Moutain Lion Virtualization - VMware vs. VirtualBox warsow: 1440 x 900 warsow: 1024 x 768 warsow: 800 x 600 urbanterror: 1440 x 900 urbanterror: 1024 x 768 urbanterror: 800 x 600 padman: 1440 x 900 padman: 1024 x 768 padman: 800 x 600 openarena: 1440 x 900 openarena: 1024 x 768 openarena: 800 x 600 openarena: 1440 x 900 openarena: 1024 x 768 openarena: 800 x 600 VirtualBox 4.1 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 42.27 41.97 41.73 21.83 21.87 22.13 40.47 40.53 40.87 19.22 22.67 23.47 48.16 37.73 37.53 86.93 86.23 84.30 95.70 92.30 97.13 158.53 155.07 152.28 63.87 72.43 71.50 175.87 3 OpenBenchmarking.org
Warsow Resolution: 1440 x 900 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 1440 x 900 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.60, N = 3 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 86.93 42.27
Warsow Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 1024 x 768 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.67, N = 3 SE +/- 0.15, N = 3 86.23 41.97
Warsow Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Warsow 1.0 Resolution: 800 x 600 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.23, N = 3 84.30 41.73
Urban Terror Resolution: 1440 x 900 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1440 x 900 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.25, N = 3 SE +/- 0.18, N = 3 95.70 21.83
Urban Terror Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 1024 x 768 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 1.43, N = 3 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 92.30 21.87
Urban Terror Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better Urban Terror 4.1 Resolution: 800 x 600 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 20 40 60 80 100 SE +/- 0.38, N = 3 SE +/- 0.12, N = 3 97.13 22.13
World of Padman Resolution: 1440 x 900 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1440 x 900 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 1.13, N = 3 SE +/- 0.09, N = 3 158.53 40.47
World of Padman Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 1024 x 768 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 0.41, N = 3 SE +/- 0.27, N = 3 155.07 40.53
World of Padman Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better World of Padman 1.2 Resolution: 800 x 600 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 30 60 90 120 150 SE +/- 2.25, N = 6 SE +/- 0.07, N = 3 152.28 40.87
OpenArena Resolution: 1440 x 900 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1440 x 900 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 14 28 42 56 70 SE +/- 0.13, N = 3 SE +/- 1.02, N = 6 63.87 19.22
OpenArena Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1024 x 768 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.19, N = 3 SE +/- 0.22, N = 3 72.43 22.67
OpenArena Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 800 x 600 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 16 32 48 64 80 SE +/- 0.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.24, N = 3 71.50 23.47
OpenArena Resolution: 1440 x 900 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1440 x 900 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 VirtualBox 4.1 40 80 120 160 200 SE +/- 2.10, N = 3 SE +/- 0.73, N = 5 175.87 48.16
OpenArena Resolution: 1024 x 768 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 1024 x 768 VirtualBox 4.1 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 37.73
OpenArena Resolution: 800 x 600 OpenBenchmarking.org Frames Per Second, More Is Better OpenArena 0.8.5 Resolution: 800 x 600 VirtualBox 4.1 VMware Fusion 4.1.3 9 18 27 36 45 SE +/- 0.03, N = 3 37.53 3.00
Phoronix Test Suite v10.8.5