Windowns 7 x86 and x64 - Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox Benchmark Showdown

[TrickyX]

Hello all. I just finished putting up some Benchmarks of Windows 7 using the latest builds of Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox with both x86 and x64 based images on various Macs. More results coming soon.

http://www.techbuzzwords.com/mac/macv/win7bench/win7bench.html

Tricky

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Whoa. Wasn't expecting VMware Fusion to demolish Parallels like that. Also, where are the VirtualBox numbers? I didn't see them anywhere.

 

[TrickyX]

There are results for Virtualbox as the third link in the Laptop results. I just started messing with VirtualBox yesterday after the latest build came out. But the results for x86 on my Laptop were pretty disappointing. I'll be trying with a x64 image shortly, then those images on the Mac Pros.

Just added a new VM test on my Mac Pro using a RAID arrary to host the images, by far the fastest disk perf possible. Hopefully I'll get a handful of new results up today.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

There are results for Virtualbox as the third link in the Laptop results. I just started messing with VirtualBox yesterday after the latest build came out. But the results for x86 on my Laptop were pretty disappointing. I'll be trying with a x64 image shortly, then those images on the Mac Pros.

Just added a new VM test on my Mac Pro using a RAID arrary to host the images, by far the fastest disk perf possible. Hopefully I'll get a handful of new results up today.

Thanks - that's really interesting! Windows 7 looks quite good indeed.