Intel Core i7 Virtualization Performance
Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 22 April 2009 at 01:00 AM EDT. Page 4 of 6. 24 Comments.
When it came to encrypting a 2GB file using GnuPG, KVM was faster than VirtualBox, but by only about 4%.
Sun's VirtualBox performance really tanked when it came to the OpenSSL performance with RSA 4096-bit signing.
VirtualBox was also slower when it came to the OpenMP-based GraphicsMagick tests.