basic comparing and benchmarking of all 4 products. The versions used for this comparison are:
VMWare Workstation 5.5.3
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007
Parallels Workstation 2.2.2112
VirtualBox 1.3.6
PC specs are:
AMD Athlon XP 2900 2 GHz
1 GHz DDR SRAM in Dual Channel mode
128 MB GeForce 5200 AGP Video
80 GB IBM/Hitachi Sata Drive (Fastest Drive - OS and Apps reside on it)
160 GB WD Sata Drive (Virtual Images reside on it)
40 GB Seagate EIDE
40 GB WD EIDE
All VM's were configured with default hardware settings
All VM's have a virtual HDD of 1.5 GB and 128 MB RAM and pagefile of 200 MB
All RAM usage was done with Windows Task Manager
Highest score is in Blue, Lowest is in Red
VMWare___is in Column 1
Virtual PC__is in Column 2
Parallels___is in Column 3
VirtualBox__is in Column 4
____________________________________1__________2__________3__________4
RESOURCE SPECS
Program Installer Size (MB)_____________92_________30_________19_________13
Program Installed Size (MB)____________105_________35_________24_________24
Program RAM usage (MB)_______________17_________23__________8_________26
w/ VM Running (MB)___________________61________175_________53________231
XP VM Boot Time (Seconds)____________25_________26_________25_________18
XP VM RAM usage (MB)________________44_________44_________44_________44
w/ Tools Installed_____________________48_________49_________47_________47
VM Tools RAM usage (MB)_______________4__________5__________3________1.7
VM Tools # of proccesses_______________2__________3__________1__________1
CPU BENCHMARKS
CPU Dhrystone (MBIPS)______________5812_______5553_______5603_______5682
CPU Whetstone (MWIPS)_____________4224_______3839_______3910_______4023
CPU Speed (MHz)___________________2002_______1911_______2010_______2001
CPU Multimedia Extensions Score______2191_______1317_______1421_______2249
MEMORY BENCHMARKS
Integer Assignment Score___________17781______16587______16199______16671
Real Assignment Score______________18467______16649______16335______16719
Integer Split Score_________________20686______19867______19439______19885
Real Split Score____________________24221______20752______22714______23440
DISPLAY BENCHMARK
Default Video RAM (MB)________________16__________8_________16__________8
(Score was computed from 7________137007_____121175_____142031______68250
categories of how fast the
virtual adapter can draw
different shapes per second)
HARD DISK BENCHMARKS
Write (MB/s)________________________20.52______19.10______18.02______18.78
Read (MB/s)________________________22.79______21.89______15.88______24.43
NETWORK BENCHMARKS
Write (MB/s)_________________________9.80_______9.96___Not tested__Not tested
Read (MB/s)________________________27.52______25.26___Not tested__Not tested
Just some obvious results:
VMWare has best all-around performance (no surprise).
Virtual PC has worst CPU performance.
VirtualBox has solid all-around VM performance, but had the most bugs on my system. (There are lots of people with no problems using WinXP as a guest on Windows or Linux.)
Parallels has worst RAM performance.
TEST uradjen u martu 2007. godine.
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