Hi,
I have Xubuntu 14.04 32bit host, where I have installed latest VirtualBox with latest extensions. In it I have Win 7 64bit guest, with 3GB RAM, 2 processors. Everything works great, but HDD operations are VERY slow. When i run HDtune test in guest, hdd speed is approximately 30Mb/s. (booth host and guest are on same SSD on separated partitions) So I made a little test. I have copied hdd content to .vdmk file and run it in VirtualBox. Hdd speed was still around 30Mb/s. Then I have installed Vmware player and created new virtual machine, but then added the same virtual HDD. When I run it in Vmware (similar setup as VirtualBox) and do HDtune test, average HDD speed is around 250MB/s !!! and whole system is much faster.
So how is this possible? I still would like to use VirtualBox, because it seems to have better USB devices support and I have some network issues in Vmware too. Thank you for your answers
I have Xubuntu 14.04 32bit host, where I have installed latest VirtualBox with latest extensions. In it I have Win 7 64bit guest, with 3GB RAM, 2 processors. Everything works great, but HDD operations are VERY slow. When i run HDtune test in guest, hdd speed is approximately 30Mb/s. (booth host and guest are on same SSD on separated partitions) So I made a little test. I have copied hdd content to .vdmk file and run it in VirtualBox. Hdd speed was still around 30Mb/s. Then I have installed Vmware player and created new virtual machine, but then added the same virtual HDD. When I run it in Vmware (similar setup as VirtualBox) and do HDtune test, average HDD speed is around 250MB/s !!! and whole system is much faster.
So how is this possible? I still would like to use VirtualBox, because it seems to have better USB devices support and I have some network issues in Vmware too. Thank you for your answers