[Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?

[Rich Pieri]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:05:29 -0400
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.

The entire point of raw device access is to bypass the host filesystem
layer. A file on a host filesystem being treated as a raw device must
be accessed through the host filesystem thus it's not raw I/O any more.

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