It may still be hard to generalize the findings reported here, since this is a case of one particular hardware setting with a limited set of tests. As far as disk performance is concerned, it is not conclusive which one is better. VMware Player won! ConclusionĪccording to the test results, it appears that VMware Player has a slight edge over VirtualBox in terms of CPU and memory. VirtualBox won! Memory Performance Comparison VMware Player won!įFmpeg: Convert H.264 HD to NTSC DV. VirtualBox won! CPU Performance Comparison Disk Performance ComparisonīlogBench: Final score. For each category, I randomly chose several tests among available ones from Phoronix Test Suite. I did performance tests in three categories: (1) disk, (2) processor and (3) memory. Operating System: Ubuntu 13.04 (64-bit).Guest VM Specification (for both VMware Player and VirtualBox) Memory: 8GB Shared Dual Channel DDR3 Memory.Next, I powered on VirtualBox VM, repeated the same set of tests with it, and powered it off. That is, I powered on VMware Player VM, completed a series of tests on it, and powered off the VM.

I conducted the performance experiments on one VM at a time, so that there is no resource contention between the two VMs.

Since two guest VMs have exactly the same hardware specification, the lower the virtualization overhead is, the better performance a VM will get. Then I ran various PTS tests to obtain performance benchmarks from both VMs. To compare virtualization overhead of two virtualization software packages, I created one VM on VMware Player, and another VM on VirtualBox, both of which have exactly the same specifications. How much overhead is introduced by the virtualization layer will determine the raw performance of guest virtual machines (VMs) running on a hypervisor.Ĭontinuing from the feature comparison between VMware Player and VirtualBox, I will present performance comparison between VMware Player and VirtualBox. If you are using a virtualization hypervisor, one of your main concerns will be its performance, or in another word, its virtualization overhead.

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