- Aug 24, 2008
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I am a graduate student in Computer Science and use Linux for development. Some of the algorithms I write take a long time to complete, especially if they aren't vectorized. Using x86 virtualization extensions, I read that the performance penalty of running in the guest vs the host is nearly gone since it essentially time slices the CPU. However, I've heard of problems where number crunching or compiling in a VM is really slow. Also I'm not using a bare metal type 1 hypervisor, just VMWare Player running on Windows 10. Does anyone have any experience with CPU intensive work running in a VM?