On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:44:44 +0000 Chavdar Ivanov <ci4...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I managed to get mine to about 180MB/sec, host i/o cache didn't make > much difference, but I switched to ICH9 chipset and ICH6 SATA > controller... Hold on, I just realised my root device is on an IDE > controller, not SATA, which must have been the default setting for > NetBSD in VirtualBox. I'll check using SATA. > > My Centos VM returns some 600MB/sec. > > Chavdar > I suspect this may be due to Linux KVM/VirtualBox integration and optimized paravirtualzed drivers.