Multiple hard drive on VirtualBox

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Artona
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Multiple hard drive on VirtualBox

Post by Artona »

Hello guys,

I mostly use virtualbox to emulate calculation softwares on Ubuntu (guest) on my W10 machine (host), which use lot of memory. I often don't know the space required for my calculation programs on my guest machines, and sometimes, it goes up to the memory limit of my virtual machine, and I can't open it anymore. On my real computer, I have an OS running on an SSD and multiple SATA to store all my data so that kind of problem can't happen.

I tried doing the same thing on my Ubuntu guest, by adding other SATA controlers, which would represent my SATA storages, but then I can't access them from my guest machine. Is what I want to do possible ? Did I do the right way but missed the following steps ? Did I do something wrong ?

Thank you for your halp,
Have a nice day,

Guillaume
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Re: Multiple hard drive on VirtualBox

Post by mpack »

One SATA controller should be plenty, since it allows (from memory) up to 32 drives. It's drives you should be adding, not controllers.
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