patrick ecord VirtualBox testing on Ubuntu 13.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. virtual box ram drive 8 core 8gb: Processor: Intel Xeon E5620 @ 1.91GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 8192MB, Disk: 17GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: LLVMpipe, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 13.04, Kernel: 3.8.0-11-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 6.6.0, Display Server: X Server 1.13.2, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 9.0.2 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768, System Layer: VirtualBox PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better virtual box ram drive 8 core 8gb . 2484 |====================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Integer MB/s > Higher Is Better virtual box ram drive 8 core 8gb . 6711.80 |=================================== RAMspeed SMP 3.5.0 Type: Average - Benchmark: Floating Point MB/s > Higher Is Better virtual box ram drive 8 core 8gb . 5811.94 |=================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better virtual box ram drive 8 core 8gb . 58.42 |=====================================