[kwlug-disc] QEMU vs VirtualBox -- which is faster?

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Mon May 25 12:55:08 EDT 2026


I'm running Kubuntu 26.04 inside QEMU and VirtualBox.  QEMU (with KVM 
enabled, --enable-kvm) is supposed to be faster, but strangely it seems 
slower to me.  I am compiling kernel now, but that takes 2 hours on 2 
cpu, which mean I have to wait 4 hours to find out.

Is there a quick way to test cpu/ram/disk?  By "quick", I mean 5min.


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