I have been a fusion 3 user for some time, i used fusion because it was convenient but when i need it the best performance i would had to boot in bootcamp, since fusion 4 came out i was curios to find out if it was really that faster so i went on and upgraded. Before i did that i made a quick
benchmark, i load it a scene in 3dsmax 2012 to benchmark the render speed and this were the results.
****** fusion 3: Virtual machine out of bootcamp (win 7 prox64) ******
-> 03:30 ****** fusion 4: Virtual machine out of bootcamp (win 7 prox64) *****
-> 02:08 ****** boot in bootcamp (win 7 prox64) ****** > 02:28
That was really amazing, i was finally going to be able to remove my bootcamp partition and gain some extra hd space, but before that i wanted to do another test, how would it perform if i created a new virtual image of win 7 with no bootcamp at all. And to my surprise it is twice as slow !!!
******fusion 4: Virtual machine (win 7 prox64)******-> 05:40
All this test were done in a macbook pro 17 , i7 with 8gb ram. The virtual machines were all configured to 8 cores and 4gb ram.
Does anyone from the vmware team know why is this? Is it a bug?
I will try converting the hd to pre-allocated disk space, to see if that makes any difference.
Regards,
Milton 