[azinman2]

Is it just me or do the graphs not match up to the text in several places? For example in the 64MB random file write graph (http://i.imgur.com/iGxn2H1.png) green is the vmware native according to the legend, which is clearly the highest bar graph across the board, yet he says "VirtualBox continues to outperform VMware on writes"

[icebraining]

He's probably talking about the Shared Folders performance.

[orthecreedence]

That's the conclusion I drew, but it's really unclear. He said at the end that VMWare blows Virtualbox out of the water. The graphs show that for shared folders but as far as disk access in general, they look fairly evenly matched (at least, that's what the graphs I saw depicted).

[arde]

Yeah, and who cares about shared folder performance anyway?

[gcv]

It's the nicest way to keep and edit your work on the host and run it in the isolated environment of the guest. VirtualBox shared folders have completely unacceptable performance here [1], and VMware handles itself much better.

[1] 10-15 second delay on returning a response in a Rails app, in my experience.