Comparison of VMware Workstation, VirtualBox and MS Hyper-V hypervisor performance with MS Windows OS based guests

Abstract

This paper presents a performance comparison of the Type-2 hypervisor, using the VMware Workstation player, then the VirtualBox platform, and finally MS Hyper-V, as the virtualization role in Windows 10 Pro environment. The tests were performed under the same conditions and the same test method using HD Tune Pro tool. For the guest operating system, Windows 10 Pro was chosen as the basis for all testing phases. The performance of all three virtual platforms are compared for the cases with one, two and three virtual machines in operation. The tests were validated based on the results obtained using the benchmark program.