Simulating drive failure

[nowhereman]

Hi, Is there a way to simulate drive failure using the means of virtualbox? I did not find anything in forum or docs, but it indeed would be useful to simulate at least hot plugging out or hardware failure.

[mpack]

AFAIK there is nothing like that in the standard builds, but you could always create your own build of the OSE version and add that feature to it

[vbox4me2]

Or stick 2 drives in your pc, mirror them, place vdi on that and pull the power kabel.

[mpack]

Or stick 2 drives in your pc, mirror them, place vdi on that and pull the power kabel.

That would be an actual drive failure, not a simulated one. It would mainly affect software running on the host (eg. Vbox itself). It's unpredictable how it would be seen inside the guest.