Proxmox vs Hyper-V

I had a chance to benchmark a Slackware virtual machine install on the same hardware using various virtualisation solutions. I timed between the start of package installation and stopped the stopwatch at the USB flash disk creation page.

The host System:
CPU: AMD Phenom II x2 550 (not overclocked)
DRAM: 4GB
Disk: 120GB Intel SSDSA2CW120G3

The guest:
CPUs: 1
RAM: 1024
Hard disk: 20GB (expanding)
Installed from an ISO image of 14.2 (64-bit) on the local disk

Proxmox: v5.0-30
Hyper-V: Server 2016 9718828
VirtualBox: 5.1.28

Otherwise I chose the defaults for VM creation in all cases.

Here are the results:

****: 8 minutes 59 seconds (html5 display)
Proxmox: 9 minutes 27 seconds (noVNC display)
V*****: 10 minutes 05 seconds (under Slackare, local display)
VirtualBox: 11 minutes 05 seconds (under Slackware, local display)
Hyper-V: 11 minutes 42 seconds (Windows 10 VM for management)
XenServer7 13 minutes 23 seconds (Windows 10 VM for management)


regards,
Biff.

"Would the latter slow down the virtualisation?"

Yes.

There may be a few VM's that come close to physical speed but not virtualbox.

Some ideas to speed up vm's in general. https://www.howtogeek.com/124796/the...tual-machines/

Originally Posted by jefro "Would the latter slow down the virtualisation?" Yes. There may be a few VM's that come close to physical speed but not virtualbox. Some ideas to speed up vm's in general. https://www.howtogeek.com/124796/the...tual-machines/

OK, in that case I will re-do the test using xfreeRDP to display the Hyper-V VM console instead, and see if that makes a difference. I just couldn't be bothered to get that working in the first instance.