On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Alberto Mijares <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to test Soft RAID solutions on Linux and FreeBSD. I'm aware
> that you can't unplug a disk from a running VM; so what would you do
> to simulate a disk failure?
>
hmm...
You can try to find some program, that randomly (but slowly) writes
junk into HDD image, and run this program on _host_.
Guest will receive random junk this way.

A similar program exists for network. (VDE wirefilter)

> Besides, I've been trying to disable the SATA to IDE emulation... the
> User Manual is not very clear about it.
>

In VirtualBox there is no IDE emulation for SATA controller. It always
works in SATA (AHCI) mode.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

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