Build time inside the RHEL 7 VM (VirtualBox) - virtualbox

ALL,
I have a software that I'm trying to build on both host machine and VirtualBox client.
Both machine use the same RHEL7 OS and exctly the same set of Makefile's.
However the build time on the host is much faster than on VM.
Is there a way to improve the build time so it can at least be comparable with the host one?
TIA!!

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