Since I was curious enough to make a detailed performance measurement, I thought I would share the results here.
The hardware platform is an Intel D975XBX main board, with X6800 Core 2 Extreme CPU, overclocked to 3.3GHz, with 4GB DDR2 RAM, an Nvidia 7900GS graphics card, and dual WD1500 SATA drives.
The application is a MS Visual FoxPro specialized database named "The Master Genealogist" ver. 6.12, running my database of about 64,000 individuals. It is a CPU-intensive application, and one of the most intensive standard routines is "Verify File Integrity" under the "File Maintenance" menu. On my database at its present size, it takes well over 2 minutes to run this routine, so I thought it would be good candidate to use as a benchmark for testing the performance of VMWare Player as a Win XP virtual machine.
In the native Windows XP installation, average of 3 runs was 2:34.7.
In the VMWare Player virtual XP machine, under Kubuntu 32-bit generic, average of 3 runs was 2:42.3.
Conclusion: VMWare Player runs this application about 4.9% slower than native Windows. I'm impressed -- that's pretty much at the margin of an observable performance difference, to me.
I previously ran TMG under Win4Lin. When I compared Win4Lin performance to VMWare Player a couple months ago, I found that VMWare Player was a solid 15% faster than Win4Lin, on the same Kubuntu platform (this one).
So, now you know!
EDIT: U.R. is grinning below because he helped me get VMW Player running on my rig -- THANKS U.R.
The hardware platform is an Intel D975XBX main board, with X6800 Core 2 Extreme CPU, overclocked to 3.3GHz, with 4GB DDR2 RAM, an Nvidia 7900GS graphics card, and dual WD1500 SATA drives.
The application is a MS Visual FoxPro specialized database named "The Master Genealogist" ver. 6.12, running my database of about 64,000 individuals. It is a CPU-intensive application, and one of the most intensive standard routines is "Verify File Integrity" under the "File Maintenance" menu. On my database at its present size, it takes well over 2 minutes to run this routine, so I thought it would be good candidate to use as a benchmark for testing the performance of VMWare Player as a Win XP virtual machine.
In the native Windows XP installation, average of 3 runs was 2:34.7.
In the VMWare Player virtual XP machine, under Kubuntu 32-bit generic, average of 3 runs was 2:42.3.
Conclusion: VMWare Player runs this application about 4.9% slower than native Windows. I'm impressed -- that's pretty much at the margin of an observable performance difference, to me.
I previously ran TMG under Win4Lin. When I compared Win4Lin performance to VMWare Player a couple months ago, I found that VMWare Player was a solid 15% faster than Win4Lin, on the same Kubuntu platform (this one).
So, now you know!
EDIT: U.R. is grinning below because he helped me get VMW Player running on my rig -- THANKS U.R.
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