[Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?

Eric Chadbourne eric.chadbourne at icloud.com
Mon Oct 25 18:28:37 EDT 2021


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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