From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 15 21:38:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 933F1A05 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:38:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.208.146]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAA501CB6 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maia.hub.org (unknown [200.46.151.189]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DECAF3FDF9 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:38:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.208.146]) by maia.hub.org (mx1.hub.org [200.46.151.189]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89204-05 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:38:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.5.250.150] (remote.ilcs.sd63.bc.ca [142.31.148.2]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 538D9F3FDF8 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:38:30 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" Subject: VirtualBox on 9.x Host / Guest: IDE -> SATA Message-Id: <4F2F5F2B-ACC6-4DF9-A8FD-9E55454E07BE@hub.org> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:38:27 -0700 To: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.3 \(1503\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1503) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 21:38:35 -0000 I just tried to switch from IDE -> SATA, using: #!/bin/sh VBoxManage storagectl $1 --name 'IDE Controller' --remove VBoxManage storagectl $1 --name "SATA Controller" --add sata VBoxManage storageattach $1 --storagectl "SATA Controller" --device 0 = --port 0 --type hdd --medium /vm/${1}/hdd0.vdi VBoxHeadless -startvm $1 & The first one I did it on, I notice an ~20MB/s improvement in write = operations, based on running 'iozone 1024' =85 tried it on a test VM I = created for this purposes, so nothing else was running in it =85 but no = problems =85 So, moved over to a more production (not mission critical) box, = everything rebooted fine, then ran 'svnup' in order to download latest = -STABLE code, and build a new kernel =85 after several minutes, my Guest = console (ala vnc) started to spew CAM: Command timeout errors: =20 Tried to do a 'VBoxManage controlvm poweroff', and it haves = trying to power down also: # VBoxManage controlvm monitor.openstudent.ca poweroff 0%...10%...20%=85 =3D=3D=3D kill'd the process from the command line, restarted and it appeared to = come up fine =85=20 has anyone seen something like this with SATA? I've never seen anything = like this with IDE =85=20 Host: FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #2: Thu Mar 28 19:41:23 UTC 2013 Guest: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012