[Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

Oh, I understand, but it is a limitation that makes no sense to me. From a
coding perspective, a file and a device are virtually identical.

There are quite a few advantages to using files over devices.

> 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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