virtualbox sata emulation

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> I've been trying to use SATA emulation for a disk in VirtualBox (4.0.4).
> It seems that "it" randomly gets stuck forever during heavy I/O.
> Not sure if this is FreeBSD-specific though.
>
> Has anyone else played with this?
>

Not specifically on that version, but toggling the Virtualbox host
controller cache mode for the VM did help with a few IO issues on the
previous 3.x series.  Might be worth at shot.  Have you looked at the Vbox
bug db?


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Adam Vande More