[Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?

[Eric Chadbourne]

Yeah that’s interesting.  I’ve not needed the functionality yet but good to know.

I found Richard’s comments quiet valuable as well. 

Learn something everyday, hopefully.  

Eric C


> On Oct 25, 2021, at 8:40 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> 
> Yup, that was my problem. It won't use a raw file. It will only work on
> partitions or hard disks. Which, IMHO, is just stupid.
> 
>> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#rawdisk
>> Eric C
>>>> On Oct 25, 2021, at 5:23 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>>> Does virtualbox allow images in raw format? I recall having issues
>>> with it
>>> on my company mac.
>>> I find VirtualBox too limited, if you are on a Windows box, try HyperV,
>>> if
>>> you are on Mac, use VMware's Mac product (not sure I know what its
>>> called
>>> these days.)
>>> If you run Linux, KVM/QEMU is the way to go.
>>>> I recently purchased a 500GB NVMe memory stick and put it into an
>>>> enclosure
>>>> with a USB-C interface.  The idea was to format half NTFS (for Windows)
>>>> and
>>>> the other half EXT4 (or similar) so that I could create two VMs out of
>>>> my
>>>> old physical Windoze machine and my old Ubuntu workstation. Assuming
>>>> that
>>>> is possible, the idea is that I'd be able to plug the thing into my
>>>> MacBook
>>>> (having VirtualBox), and be able to use my Linux and Windows machines
>>>> (as
>>>> VMs in VirtualBox).
>>>> Is this possible? Any suggestions?
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Greg
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