Good question! Although I don't have any hard numbers, virtualbox does not 
'feel' as if it is really accessing the drive as fast as it can.
 
R

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From: [email protected] on behalf of Brian J. Murrell
Sent: Fri 06/03/2009 17:00
To: [email protected]
Subject: [vbox-users] disk throughput only 25% of native



I have a WinXP guest on a Linux host and as I have suspected for a long
time, the throughput of the disk in WinXP is much slower than native
disk performance.  To the tune of only 25%.

The WinXP installation is on a real partition and when I boot that WinXP
natively on the hardware I get about 20MB/s throughput.

If I boot Linux, Linux sees 20MB/s on that partition as well, however
that same WinXP run in a vritualbox configured to use the partition raw,
only sees about 5MB/s.

I guess I should add that I'm using VB 2.1.4 and have guest extensions
installed.

Any ideas?

b.



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