shared folder performance - tips to speed up?

[weberjn]

I mounted a folder from my windows drive with VirtualBox shared folders in Fedora 28 guest (W10 on Thinkpad T460s).

java /java vboxsf uid=weberjn,gid=weberjn 0 0

I cloned https://github.com/git/git.git
and timed local clone of this in Msys2 and Fedora guest. Cloning in Msys2 only took half the time.

Is there a way to speed up virtual folders?

I tried to mount the folder via cifs, but then git clone fails.

Thanks,
Jürgen

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weberjn@Kuno MSYS /c/java/gittest
$ time git clone git git.msys2
Cloning into 'git.msys2'...
done.
Checking out files: 100% (3260/3260), done.

real    0m27.745s
user    0m1.827s
sys     0m12.278s

[weberjn@kunix gittest]$ time git clone git git.share
Cloning into 'git.share'...
done.
Checking out files: 100% (3260/3260), done.

real    1m0.937s
user    0m0.733s
sys     0m10.696s

sudo mount -t cifs //kuno/java /java -o user=weberjn,uid=weberjn,gid=weberjn
weberjn@kunix:/java/gittest>  time git clone git git.cfs
Cloning into 'git.cfs'...
done.
fatal: failed to read object 53f9a3e157dbbc901a02ac2c73346d375e24978c: Invalid argument
fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly

real    0m22.923s
user    0m0.058s
sys     0m1.597s

[mpack]

Performance is not the goal of GA shared folders, simplicity is.

If you want better performance then consider setting up a true network share, using a virtio-net NIC and appropriate drivers in the guest.