[GLLUG] How can a VM be faster than raw hardware?

[John Winters]

On 09/12/12 19:11, Paul Hewlett wrote:
> Hi John
>
> Virtualbox lies - see this link
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1110_xenkvm&num=7
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1110_xenkvm&num=7>
>
> Virtualbox does not honour sync/fsync requests - your data may be at risk...

Thank you - that does seem to be the most likely explanation.

No problem with data risk - they are only test data generated on the fly 
as part of the test.

Cheers,
John