[Dovecot] Virtual Servers

[Daniel L. Miller]

On 6/27/2011 12:48 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> In the storage configuration of your VM, where you select the type of interface to emulate, there's a checkbox for using the Host's I/O cache.
>
Does VirtualBox uses that to "trick" the guest kernel into not consuming 
memory for caching?

>
> If you can set aside entire block devices for use in the VM, you can create a vmdk that performs a 1:1 mapping from the virtualized disk to the given block device.  The block device will be partitionable inside the VM, even if it is a partition itself.  If you need to, you can access those partitions from the host with the "partx" or "kpartx" utilities (with the VM shut down, of course).
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> The command you want is "VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk"
I've done raw access before - but in this case I'm using a single XFS 
partition on a RAID10 that has multiple directories for various data 
needs - one of which is the mail store.

-- 
Daniel