By comparison, the VirtualBox install took just 28 minutes start to finish, and that included download time for updates, since I had selected the option to do that at install time. I started the install at about 8:15am in the morning, and by 1:00pm it was finally finished. It was only out of a somewhat morbid fascination that I let it go to completion.

This review almost did not get written, because it took friggen forever for the QEMU install to complete. Here are what a few of the QEMU build sequence steps look like: I used VirtualBox 4.0 for this comparison.īoth products provide a graphical interface for building a new virtual guest instance. Here’s the kernel version of the host at the time of this writing: 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 02:41: x86_64 GNU/Linux. The host system is an AMD 64-bit machine that is also running Ubuntu 10.10 desktop. For the comparison I chose to install virtual guest instances of Ubuntu 10.10 desktop from a downloaded copy of the iso. I thought I’d take this relatively quiet period to do a quickie comparison between a couple of virtualization tools: QEMU and Oracle's VirtualBox.

Government always releases a slew of RFPs just before Thanksgiving? I’ve been swamped working on proposals since the third week of November, but we got the last one submitted just before Christmas so it’s back to normal (or what passes for normal around here) for a while.

Kvm vs virtualbox vs vmware performance