[Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?

markw at mohawksoft.com markw at mohawksoft.com
Mon Oct 25 20:05:29 EDT 2021


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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