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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by bdon on Monday July 22, 2013 @04:35PM (#6086303)
Author here. Good point, i'll repeat these measurements with NFS instead and add that to the blog post.

EDIT: Updated the post, NFS erases most of the difference between VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion. Nice!

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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by joevandyk on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:44PM (#6087255)
Did you test vmware fusion with shared folder?
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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by bdon on Monday July 22, 2013 @07:50PM (#6087282)
Yes, VMWare Fusion was tested using shared folders instead of NFS, which are considerably faster than VirtualBox's.
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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by joevandyk on Monday July 22, 2013 @10:49PM (#6087914)
Hm, I've seen the opposite. I think others have as well.

http://vagrant.1086180.n5.nabble.com/Shared-folders-slow-usi...

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Re:Web development performance inside and outside a VM by bdon on Monday July 22, 2013 @11:41PM (#6088108)
Thanks for the tip, I found that using NFS with Fusion shaved a second or two off app boot time. Updated the post with measurements and the link you suggested.
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