test VirtualBox testing on Ubuntu 12.04 via the Phoronix Test Suite. VBOX HDD - Intel Core i7-3615QM: Processor: Intel Core i7-3615QM @ 2.30GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Oracle VirtualBox v1.2, Chipset: Intel 440FX- 82441FX PMC, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 9GB VBOX HDD, Graphics: InnoTek VirtualBox, Audio: Intel 82801AA AC 97 Audio, Network: Intel 82540EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-29-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 640x480, System Layer: VirtualBox Flexible IO Tester 1.57 Intel IOMeter File Server Access Pattern Seconds (Run Time) < Lower Is Better VBOX HDD - Intel Core i7-3615QM . 6.74 |======================================= SQLite 3.7.3 12,500 INSERTs Seconds < Lower Is Better VBOX HDD - Intel Core i7-3615QM . 66.19 |====================================== FS-Mark 3.3 1000 Files, 1MB Size Files/s > Higher Is Better VBOX HDD - Intel Core i7-3615QM . 201.82 |===================================== Dbench 4.0 12 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better VBOX HDD - Intel Core i7-3615QM . 471.53 |===================================== Dbench 4.0 48 Clients MB/s > Higher Is Better VBOX HDD - Intel Core i7-3615QM . 459.19 |=====================================