VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lion

VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion benchmarks from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion host on 2012 Apple MacBook Pro with Retina display. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x86_64 guest each time comparing VMware and VirtualBox virtualization. Benchmarking by Michael Larabel for a future article on Phoronix.com.

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VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain LionProcessorMotherboardChipsetMemoryDiskGraphicsAudioMonitorNetworkOSKernelDesktopDisplay ServerDisplay DriverOpenGLCompilerFile-SystemScreen ResolutionSystem LayerVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.32GHz (8 Cores)innotek VirtualBox v1.2Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC6144MB30GB VBOX HDDChromiumIntel 82801AA AC 97 AudioVBOX monitorIntel 82540EM GigabitUbuntu 12.043.2.0-23-generic (x86_64)Unity 5.10.0X Server 1.11.3vboxvideo 1.0.12.1GCC 4.6ext41440x900VirtualBox 4.1.12_Ubuntur77245Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.29GHz (8 Cores)Intel 440BXIntel 440BX/ZX/DX30GB VMware Virtual SVMware SVGA IIEnsoniq ES1371Intel 82545EM Gigabitvmware 12.0.12.1 Mesa 8.0.2 Gallium 0.41041x780VMwareOpenBenchmarking.orgCompiler 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 Disk Details- VirtualBox 4.1: CFQ / barrier=1,data=ordered,errors=remount-ro,relatime,rw,user_xattrSystem Details- VirtualBox 4.1: Disk Scheduler: CFQ. Compiz was running on this system.- VMware Fusion 4: Compiz was running on this system.

VirtualBox 4.1 vs. VMware Fusion 4 ComparisonPhoronix Test SuiteBaseline+42%+42%+84%+84%+126%+126%+168%+168%168.1%44.3%24.3%14.1%12%11.9%9.9%8.2%7.1%5.3%5.3%4.3%3.9%3.6%2.5%S.W.P.SP.R.W.S.S.MT.B.T.P.SH.2.V.ELU.AvpxencTotal TimeEP.BIS.C8.1%G.I.R.1.SSP.ATime To CompileCG.BFT.BBT.AUA.A3.2%MG.BApache BenchmarkTTSIOD 3D RendererPostgreSQL pgbenchx264NAS Parallel BenchmarksVP8 libvpx EncodingC-RayNAS Parallel BenchmarksNAS Parallel BenchmarksSmallptNAS Parallel BenchmarksTimed Linux Kernel CompilationNAS Parallel BenchmarksNAS Parallel BenchmarksNAS Parallel BenchmarksNAS Parallel BenchmarksNAS Parallel BenchmarksVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4

VirtualBox vs. VMware Fusion - OS X Mountain Lionnpb: BT.Anpb: CG.Bnpb: EP.Bnpb: FT.Bnpb: IS.Cnpb: LU.Anpb: MG.Bnpb: SP.Anpb: UA.Affte: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routinettsiod-renderer: Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mappingvpxenc: vpxencx264: H.264 Video Encodinghimeno: Poisson Pressure Solverbuild-linux-kernel: Time To Compilec-ray: Total Timesmallpt: Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samplespgbench: TPC-B Transactions Per Secondapache: Static Web Page ServingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 410410.102251.96189.885549.08108.729639.775428.504741.0933.474543.1355.5617.88102.961317.69117.5359.871051506.615360.2910779.792348.87205.405763.19100.5810799.805564.644994.2832.424619.4980.1820.00117.481314.78111.6054.48981872.9014370.35OpenBenchmarking.org

NAS Parallel Benchmarks

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: BT.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 42K4K6K8K10KSE +/- 12.63, N = 3SE +/- 348.49, N = 610410.1010779.791. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: BT.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 42K4K6K8K10KMin: 10395.02 / Avg: 10410.1 / Max: 10435.18Min: 9120.11 / Avg: 10779.79 / Max: 11323.631. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: CG.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 45001000150020002500SE +/- 8.22, N = 3SE +/- 36.97, N = 62251.962348.871. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: CG.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4400800120016002000Min: 2241.14 / Avg: 2251.96 / Max: 2268.08Min: 2172.42 / Avg: 2348.87 / Max: 2405.641. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: EP.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 450100150200250SE +/- 1.30, N = 3SE +/- 1.04, N = 3189.88205.401. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: EP.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 44080120160200Min: 188.02 / Avg: 189.88 / Max: 192.39Min: 203.99 / Avg: 205.4 / Max: 207.431. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: FT.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 412002400360048006000SE +/- 21.59, N = 3SE +/- 82.99, N = 35549.085763.191. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: FT.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 410002000300040005000Min: 5523.09 / Avg: 5549.08 / Max: 5591.94Min: 5597.23 / Avg: 5763.19 / Max: 5848.491. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: IS.CVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100SE +/- 0.43, N = 3SE +/- 0.63, N = 3108.72100.581. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: IS.CVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100Min: 107.93 / Avg: 108.72 / Max: 109.39Min: 99.35 / Avg: 100.58 / Max: 101.411. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: LU.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 42K4K6K8K10KSE +/- 69.40, N = 3SE +/- 44.71, N = 39639.7710799.801. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: LU.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 42K4K6K8K10KMin: 9555.9 / Avg: 9639.77 / Max: 9777.48Min: 10730.18 / Avg: 10799.8 / Max: 10883.21. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: MG.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 412002400360048006000SE +/- 4.84, N = 3SE +/- 142.55, N = 65428.505564.641. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: MG.BVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 410002000300040005000Min: 5422.82 / Avg: 5428.5 / Max: 5438.13Min: 4964.24 / Avg: 5564.64 / Max: 5882.971. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: SP.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 411002200330044005500SE +/- 16.35, N = 3SE +/- 86.63, N = 64741.094994.281. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: SP.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 49001800270036004500Min: 4709.45 / Avg: 4741.09 / Max: 4764.08Min: 4726.23 / Avg: 4994.28 / Max: 5205.221. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: UA.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4816243240SE +/- 0.30, N = 3SE +/- 2.32, N = 633.4732.421. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgTotal Mop/s, More Is BetterNAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3Test / Class: UA.AVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4714212835Min: 33.14 / Avg: 33.47 / Max: 34.07Min: 22.87 / Avg: 32.42 / Max: 36.741. (F9X) gfortran options: -fopenmp

FFTE

FFTE is a package by Daisuke Takahashi to compute Discrete Fourier Transforms of 1-, 2- and 3- dimensional sequences of length (2^p)*(3^q)*(5^r). Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterFFTE 5.0Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT RoutineVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 410002000300040005000SE +/- 5.91, N = 3SE +/- 7.69, N = 34543.134619.491. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread
OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterFFTE 5.0Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT RoutineVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 48001600240032004000Min: 4531.98 / Avg: 4543.13 / Max: 4552.1Min: 4609.86 / Avg: 4619.49 / Max: 4634.691. (F9X) gfortran options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fopenmp -lmpichf90 -lmpich -lopa -lmpl -lrt -lcr -lpthread

TTSIOD 3D Renderer

OpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterTTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2wPhong Rendering With Soft-Shadow MappingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100SE +/- 1.09, N = 3SE +/- 0.57, N = 355.5680.181. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -flto -msse -mrecip -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mssse3 -lSDL -lstdc++
OpenBenchmarking.orgFPS, More Is BetterTTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2wPhong Rendering With Soft-Shadow MappingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 41530456075Min: 53.97 / Avg: 55.56 / Max: 57.64Min: 79.1 / Avg: 80.18 / Max: 81.031. (CXX) g++ options: -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -mtune=native -flto -msse -mrecip -mfpmath=sse -msse2 -mssse3 -lSDL -lstdc++

VP8 libvpx Encoding

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is BetterVP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1vpxencVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4510152025SE +/- 0.08, N = 3SE +/- 0.39, N = 617.8820.001. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -lvpx -lm -lpthread
OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is BetterVP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1vpxencVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4510152025Min: 17.73 / Avg: 17.88 / Max: 18.01Min: 18.2 / Avg: 20 / Max: 20.971. (CC) gcc options: -m64 -lvpx -lm -lpthread

x264

OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2011-12-06H.264 Video EncodingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4306090120150SE +/- 1.35, N = 6SE +/- 4.50, N = 6102.96117.48
OpenBenchmarking.orgFrames Per Second, More Is Betterx264 2011-12-06H.264 Video EncodingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100Min: 96.28 / Avg: 102.96 / Max: 104.91Min: 95.13 / Avg: 117.48 / Max: 123.29

Himeno Benchmark

The Himeno benchmark is a linear solver of pressure Poisson using a point-Jacobi method. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterHimeno Benchmark 3.0Poisson Pressure SolverVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 430060090012001500SE +/- 0.68, N = 3SE +/- 24.66, N = 31317.691314.781. (CC) gcc options: -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgMFLOPS, More Is BetterHimeno Benchmark 3.0Poisson Pressure SolverVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 42004006008001000Min: 1316.43 / Avg: 1317.69 / Max: 1318.78Min: 1265.49 / Avg: 1314.78 / Max: 1340.91. (CC) gcc options: -O3

Timed Linux Kernel Compilation

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1Time To CompileVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4306090120150SE +/- 0.74, N = 3SE +/- 3.32, N = 6117.53111.60
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterTimed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1Time To CompileVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100Min: 116.74 / Avg: 117.53 / Max: 119.01Min: 108.18 / Avg: 111.6 / Max: 128.22

C-Ray

This is a test of C-Ray, a simple raytracer designed to test the floating-point CPU performance. This test is multi-threaded (16 threads per core), will shoot 8 rays per pixel for anti-aliasing, and will generate a 1600 x 1200 image. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total TimeVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 41326395265SE +/- 0.05, N = 3SE +/- 0.05, N = 359.8754.481. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterC-Ray 1.1Total TimeVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 41224364860Min: 59.77 / Avg: 59.87 / Max: 59.93Min: 54.38 / Avg: 54.48 / Max: 54.541. (CC) gcc options: -lm -lpthread -O3

Smallpt

Smallpt is a C++ global illumination renderer written in less than 100 lines of code. Global illumination is done via unbiased Monte Carlo path tracing and there is multi-threading support via the OpenMP library. Learn more via the OpenBenchmarking.org test page.

OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterSmallpt 1.0Global Illumination Renderer; 100 SamplesVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100SE +/- 0.33, N = 3SE +/- 0.33, N = 3105981. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp
OpenBenchmarking.orgSeconds, Fewer Is BetterSmallpt 1.0Global Illumination Renderer; 100 SamplesVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 420406080100Min: 105 / Avg: 105.33 / Max: 106Min: 98 / Avg: 98.33 / Max: 991. (CXX) g++ options: -fopenmp

PostgreSQL pgbench

OpenBenchmarking.orgTPS, More Is BetterPostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11TPC-B Transactions Per SecondVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 4400800120016002000SE +/- 4.06, N = 3SE +/- 21.66, N = 31506.611872.901. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -lpgport -lpq -lcrypt -ldl -lm
OpenBenchmarking.orgTPS, More Is BetterPostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11TPC-B Transactions Per SecondVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 430060090012001500Min: 1499.19 / Avg: 1506.61 / Max: 1513.18Min: 1834.24 / Avg: 1872.9 / Max: 1909.161. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -lpgport -lpq -lcrypt -ldl -lm

Apache Benchmark

OpenBenchmarking.orgRequests Per Second, More Is BetterApache Benchmark 2.2.21Static Web Page ServingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 43K6K9K12K15KSE +/- 25.81, N = 3SE +/- 260.09, N = 35360.2914370.351. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lm -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl
OpenBenchmarking.orgRequests Per Second, More Is BetterApache Benchmark 2.2.21Static Web Page ServingVirtualBox 4.1VMware Fusion 42K4K6K8K10KMin: 5314.39 / Avg: 5360.29 / Max: 5403.71Min: 14106.78 / Avg: 14370.35 / Max: 14890.521. (CC) gcc options: -O2 -pthread -lm -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl