VirtualBox Is Still Running Slower Than QEMU-KVM

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 9 January 2014 at 01:07 PM EST. Page 4 of 5. 22 Comments.
Ubuntu 14.10 VirtualBox vs. KVM Virt
Ubuntu 14.10 VirtualBox vs. KVM Virt

With the Parboil OpenMP benchmarks, the QEMU-KVM performance was only slightly behind the bare metal figures while VirtualBox was dramatically slower on this 12-thread Intel system.

Ubuntu 14.10 VirtualBox vs. KVM Virt
Ubuntu 14.10 VirtualBox vs. KVM Virt
Ubuntu 14.10 VirtualBox vs. KVM Virt

Both VM hypervisors struggled with the TTSIOD 3D Renderer.


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