Hello,
Trying to figure out what happens if I use Virtual Box on Windows 10 host, and
no VB extension pack installed on Windows.
Virtual Box version is 7.0.12.
The host is a Windows 10 that has NVMe disks.
The VM created with Virtual Box is Ubuntu 18.04, the VM is created as dynamic
allocated, initially 100G disk space, used for development.
VM has corresponding guest additions installed.
The manual for 7.0.12 states:
Non volatile memory express (NVMe) is a standard for connecting non volatile
memory
(NVM) directly over PCI Express to lift the bandwidth limitation of the
previously used
SATA protocol for solid-state devices. Unlike other standards the command set
is very
simple in order to achieve maximum throughput and is not compatible with ATA or
SCSI.
OSes need to support NVMe devices to make use of them. For example, Windows 8.1
added native NVMe support. For Windows 7, native support was added with an
update.
The NVMe controller is part of the extension pack.
But unsure whether Windows 10 needs the extension pack.
The only reason we would need to use VB extension pack is the NVMe disk.
Experimented with running VB without the extension pack. I could run existing
VMs, and create new ones.
Could we run into issues when the disk needs to expand after it reaches the
100G initial size?
Can I assume that if it works now without the extension pack, it will always
work?
Or could still run into issues later where we can lose data or render the VM
unusable because we didn't install the extension pack on Windows 10 host?
Thank you,
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