Well at the risk of being repetetive too:
or another box.
So yes I am considering it, but that is probably the option that requires less
guidance in this thread.
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OK, replying to myself after having played around a bit with both Unix under
Billware and vice versa:
1)
- Somehow the HDs turned into a GPT Protective Partition, which XP cannot
read. Googling a bit reveals that XP cannot read these (although a utility for
destroying and reformatting is
At the risk of being repetitive:
[i]Why not two separate machines, one for XP, one for zfs/raid?[/i] At today's
network speeds, hooking a cable between those two would provide any speed data
access to the files in the raid that you want. A suitable ZFS machine could sit
in another room if you
Hmm...according to
http://www.mail-archive.com/vbox-users-commun...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00640.html
that's only needed before VirtualBox 3.2, or for IDE. = 3.2, non-IDE should
honor flush requests, if I read that correctly.
Which is good, because I haven't seen an example of how to enabling
@ kebabber:
There was a guy doing that: Windows as host and
OpenSolaris as guest with raw access to his disks. He
lost his 12 TB data. It turned out that VirtualBox
dont honor the write flush flag (or something
similar).
That story is in the link I provided, and as has been pointed out
There was a guy doing that: Windows as host and OpenSolaris as guest with raw
access to his disks. He lost his 12 TB data. It turned out that VirtualBox dont
honor the write flush flag (or something similar).
In other words, I would never ever do that. Your data is safer with Windows
only and
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 07:14:43AM -0700, Orvar Korvar wrote:
There was a guy doing that: Windows as host and OpenSolaris as guest
with raw access to his disks. He lost his 12 TB data. It turned out
that VirtualBox dont honor the write flush flag (or something
similar).
VirtualBox has an
Pardon in advance my n00b ignorance. (Yes I have googled a [i]lot[/i] before
asking.)
I am considering VirtualBoxing away one physical machine at home, and running
WinXP as host (yes, as atrocious it may seem, explanation below [1]) and
OpenSolaris guest as file server, with OpenSolaris
I have another question to add to the two you already asked and answered.
Why not two separate machines, one for XP, one for zfs/raid? At today's
network speeds, hooking a cable between those two would provide any speed data
access to the files in the raid that you want. A suitable ZFS machine
