On Fri, August 21, 2009 10:32, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> Various people have stated here that VirtualBox intentionally does not
> pass through cache flush requests.

The current default value ignores flush requests from guest OSes, but this
can't tweaked via a parameter (11.1.3 Responding to guest IDE flush
requests):

> If desired, the virtual disk images (VDI) can be flushed when the guest
> issues the IDE FLUSH CACHE command. Normally these requests are ignored
> for improved performance. To enable flushing, issue the following command:
>
>  VBoxManage setextradata VMNAME
>       "VBoxInternal/Devices/piix3ide/0/LUN#[x]/Config/IgnoreFlush" 0

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html#id2531504

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