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i want to simulate older hard drives in virtualbox, so is there away to set the read/write speed lower than the actual hard drive in the computer? I want the speed to be like an old 120MB ide hard drive from the ms-dos era of computing, The hard drive was an Quantum prodrive ELS 120 MB which has about an 4 MB/s read speed and much lower write speed.

See section 5.8 in the manual. That's all Virtualbox has on drive speed, I think.

scottgus1 wrote:See section 5.8 in the manual. That's all Virtualbox has on drive speed, I think.

So you have to use the command prompt for this? Why isn't it a virtualbox setting in its GUI?

It isn't a common usage, folks don't typically want their hard drives to run slower than they're capable of. The developers haven't put everything Virtualbox can do in the GUI. If you want to ask them to do so you can post an enhancement request on the Bugtracker.

scottgus1 wrote:It isn't a common usage, folks don't typically want their hard drives to run slower than they're capable of. The developers haven't put everything Virtualbox can do in the GUI. If you want to ask them to do so you can post an enhancement request on the Bugtracker.

About how many things are available in command line that aren't available in the virtualbox gui?

Open up a Terminal/Command Prompt and type "VBoxManage" with no arguments. You can also look for detailed instructions on the User Manual, Chapter 8. VBoxManage. It's quite extended...