User: VisiK7

Vmware are right (mostly)

On: Hardware Virtualization Slower Than Software?

here some tests conduct by myself
parallels workstation 2.1 build 1670 (has vt support)
vmware workstation 5.5.1 build 19175 (hasn't vt support)

starting vm
vmware: 5.38
parallels: 1.88

booting etch install iso
vmware: 14.89
parallels: 6.55

installing etch (not considering interaction)
vmware: 122.56
parallels: 179.18

booting installed sys
vmware: 23.46
parallels: 13.73

apt-get install vim build-essential (no download)
vmware: 33.78
parallels: 16.54

tar -jxf linux-2.6.17.9.tar.bz2
vmware: 55.34
parallels: 30.73

make bzImage
vmware: 356.28
parallels: 557.92

make modules
vmware: 2037.24
parallels: 3358.03

the guest os is kubuntu 6.06 with kernel 686 (smp support)
hardware is a centrino core duo with VT support 1gb of ram
512 on each virtual machine, all at 32bit.