FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Boot time benchmark Vmware vs. Parallels

["Urias McCullough" <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/13/06, Ben Allen <ben.allen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/13/06, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 12/13/06, Karl vom Dorff <haikubounties@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > There seems to be quite a difference in performance, with Vmware
> > booting
> > > nearly 3x as fast, and as I mentioned before, it generally feels much
> > > snappier than emulation in Parallels.
> >
> > Would it be possible to add QEMU to that round-up? It seems MUCH, MUCH
> > slower in my testing, which is too bad since it is the main
> > open-source offering in virtual machines...
> >
> > Of course it could just be the BeOS version which is so slow...
> >
> > Ryan
> >
>
>
> I haven't done any timing measurements, but the Windows version of QEMU
> was much slower than Vmware for me (I'd estimate that it was about as
> relatively slow as Karl reported Parallels to be).  Of course, don't even
> get me started on Bochs.....
>
> -Ben
Don't forget to try kQEMU also - it does make a huge difference on Windows
for me - unfortunately it's not open source :(  But it's still not as fast
as VMWare.