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Subject: [Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?
From: markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:33:59 -0400
In-reply-to: <20211025213712.00007893.Richard.Pieri@gmail.com>
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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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References:
- [Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?
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- [Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?
  - From: eric.chadbourne at icloud.com (Eric Chadbourne)
- [Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?
  - From: markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)
- [Discuss] VirutalBox VMs on NVME?
  - From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)

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