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Simulating drive failure
Posted: 31. Aug 2009, 12:04
by 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.
Re: Simulating drive failure
Posted: 31. Aug 2009, 12:35
by 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
Re: Simulating drive failure
Posted: 31. Aug 2009, 15:23
by vbox4me2
Or stick 2 drives in your pc, mirror them, place vdi on that and pull the power kabel.
Re: Simulating drive failure
Posted: 31. Aug 2009, 15:39
by mpack
vbox4me2 wrote: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.