Virtualization which is faster VmWare/VirualBox or something else?

Question

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There is a computer, the main Windows 7 system. I need to virtually raise Linux in it and survive the maximum performance from the virtual system. Tell me which one is better to use a virtual machine, which one is more productive?

Answer 1

VmWare is slightly faster than VirualBox, but that's not essential.
Describe your computer and what tasks will be on the real and virtual machine in parallel.

Answer 2

If anything, VMWare has better support for 3D accelerator emulation (many games are running), and virtualbox even when I tried to run the simplest OnLive (winxp was in the guest room) dropped the windows 7 x64 host into a BSOD!
ps If the system is x86, then for windows there is a solution without processor virtualization at all - www.colinux.org (unfortunately there is no support for 64bit, it has been sawn for a long time and it seems that development is in stagnation).
It's something like User-Mode Linuxwhen instead of machine virtualization, a special linux kernel is simply written, acting as a layer and allowing you to run the linux operating system (and only assembled for the same processor architecture as the host system) even without support for processor virtualization (since the processor is not actually virtualized). The maximum (theoretical) performance for computing is achieved ... or rather, everything that does not require kernel calls works as fast as in native linux.

Answer 3

The tasks are in general. I have this computer as a farm for rendering 3d and video, so the system is the main Windows. But I also need Linux for the constant operation of a multi-threaded system with a large database. The computer has the most powerful i7, hardware RAID with SAS 15000 disks. In general, something like this. This is just my working machine which is not cheap and I want to combine two tasks in it. 1. Video and 3D rendering under Windows, 2. Multi-threaded data processing applications that work under LInux

Answer 4

1. If the main system is Windows, then virtualize through VMWare.
2. Check if the motherboard supports VT-d and then it makes sense to put Linux as the main system, and do virtualization through XEN with video cards forwarding.