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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    Re: [smartmontools-support] smartd on guest os
From:       Tim Small <tim () seoss ! co ! uk>
Date:       2010-05-11 11:55:29
Message-ID: 4BE945B1.2010708 () seoss ! co ! uk
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On 10/05/10 23:47, Koornstra, Reinoud wrote:
> Would smartd and smartctl even work on a guest os?
>    

If the emulation passes through direct access to the drives (via USB 
passthrough, SCSI passthrough, or PCI passthrough), then yes it should 
work.  In the normal situation, it won't (the virtualisation software 
could arrange for this, but I don't know of any that does).

Tim.

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