Rune Kock schrieb: > I noticed that the current user manual no longer includes the > description of how to flush the virtual disk whenever the guest > performs an IDE FlushCache command.
Huh? It's all still in there. Section 11.1.3. > > I finally found the info in an old version of the manual: > > VBoxManage setextradata > <vmname>"VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" 0 > > Does anyone know whether this is still supported in version 1.4.0? Yes, as it's still documented. > (I hope to run a database server in a windows guest, and then it is > very important to have the disk flushed regularly. If windows is > coded in a sensible way, I would expect it to issue a FlushCache > whenever a transaction is committed to the database). Windows issues that command whenever a filesystem transaction is complete (which might not be the same thing as you want). Just as a side note: that setting "protects" you only against host OS crashes. As those are really really infrequent, you don't get much for the extra cost. Your decision, that's why we documented that setting. -- Dr. Klaus Espenlaub innotek GmbH, http://www.innotek.de _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
