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.


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: 

	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: 1041x780, System Layer: VMware


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: BT.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 10410.10 |=================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 10779.79 |===================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: CG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 2251.96 |==================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 2348.87 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: EP.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 189.88 |=================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 205.40 |=====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: FT.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 5549.08 |==================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 5763.19 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: IS.C
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 108.72 |=====================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 100.58 |=================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: LU.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 9639.77  |==============================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 10799.80 |===================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: MG.B
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 5428.50 |===================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 5564.64 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: SP.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 4741.09 |=================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 4994.28 |====================================================


NAS Parallel Benchmarks 3.3
Test / Class: UA.A
Total Mop/s > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 33.47 |======================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 32.42 |====================================================


FFTE 5.0
Test: N=64, 1D Complex FFT Routine
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 4543.13 |===================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 4619.49 |====================================================


TTSIOD 3D Renderer 2.2w
Phong Rendering With Soft-Shadow Mapping
FPS > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 55.56 |=====================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 80.18 |======================================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 0.9.7-p1
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 17.88 |================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 20.00 |======================================================


x264 2011-12-06
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 102.96 |==============================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 117.48 |=====================================================


Himeno Benchmark 3.0
Poisson Pressure Solver
MFLOPS > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 1317.69 |====================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 1314.78 |====================================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 117.53 |=====================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 111.60 |==================================================


C-Ray 1.1
Total Time
Seconds < Lower Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 59.87 |======================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 54.48 |=================================================


Smallpt 1.0
Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples
Seconds < Lower Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 105 |========================================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 98  |====================================================


PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11
TPC-B Transactions Per Second
TPS > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 1506.61 |==========================================
VMware Fusion 4 . 1872.90 |====================================================


Apache Benchmark 2.2.21
Static Web Page Serving
Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better
VirtualBox 4.1 .. 5360.29  |===================
VMware Fusion 4 . 14370.35 |===================================================