Opened 10 years ago
#14647 new enhancement
Ram Drive as another drive type
| Reported by: | scottgus1bug | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | virtual disk | Version: | |
| Keywords: | ram drive vdi | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | all | Host type: | all |
Description
Sometimes fast save times to disk are desired. I ran a secondary disk in a guest where the vdi was actually in a ram drive on the host. The access times were very fast.
Since Virtualbox already has the ability to set aside host ram for the guest, a possibly useful service could be to set aside additional ram as a ram drive, disguising the extra ram as another vdi for the guest to see on the IDE or SATA ports. No ram drive software on the host would be necessary.
When the disk controller is clicked in the GUI settings, another icon could be placed next to Add CD and Add Disk, Add RAM Disk, maybe a little IC chip icon. A slider in the GUI could allow adjustment of how much ram to set aside. During the guest-shutdown process Virtualbox could store the ram drive vdi's contents to a file in the guest's folder, and restore the file's contents back to the ram drive during guest boot.
