Hi Paul, I think OP used swap to mean "replace virtualbox with vmware" and not the actual swap at os level.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 5:30 AM, Paul Davidson <[email protected]> wrote: > Dragon: > Can you expand on putting all VM memory into actual memory? > Do you mean allocating enough RAM to the VM so that it never needs to disk > swap? > Or is there a specific setting in VMware that tells the VM box to never use > disk swap space? > > I have noticed that if I don't allocate enough ram to the VM, that > performance is dead slow. > Better with an SDD but even flash ram is nowhere near as fast as bus ram. > Thanks > > > On Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 10:07:03 AM UTC-6, dragon788 wrote: >> >> I can definitely support Mitchell's findings. There are some quirks about >> permissions in shared folders etc but overall VMware is WAY faster than >> Virtualbox in almost every case. We did some benchmarks around compiling >> software and performance in Virtualbox actually decreased when going beyond >> 4 cores, in VMware on an 8 core system we got improvements all the way up to >> using all 8 cores, and the host OS was still fairly usable. I/O is really a >> big help on either system, running from SSDs makes life so much better. In >> VMware there are additional things you can do like putting all VM memory >> into actual memory and now allowing it to swap to disk, this also keeps >> things snappy. >> >> On Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 4:42:05 PM UTC-5, Jacob Bednarz wrote: >>> >>> Hey, >>> I do a fair bit of work where I am between VM's and at the moment I am >>> using Virtualbox with Vagrant. After talking with some colleagues last week >>> they mentioned they have seen performance increases swapping to VMWare. >>> >>> What I am looking to find out is: >>> - Is there a noticable difference for other users? >>> - If there is, where are you seeing the performance gains and what type >>> of scenarios? >>> >>> I'm more than happy to pay should there be a significant increase in >>> performance but just wanted to get the wider community feedback first. >>> >>> Thanks. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Vagrant" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
