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I have a SanDisk 1TB SSD SATA drive. There are firmware updates available via SanDisk SSD Dashboard. The dashboard is only available on Windows.

I have a Windows 10 VM in VirtualBox. I want to know if it's possible to pass thorugh the SATA drive so I can do the firmware updates?

I think it's not enough to connect /dev/sda to the VM because the firmware update commands won't reach the SSD.

Is it possible?

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  • No, not possible. Either use a bare metal installation of Windows or, if available, the firmware update project may provide the same firmware update via Linux.
    – ChanganAuto
    Dec 1, 2021 at 14:59
  • You can try to use createrawvmdk method, but it is unlkely that low-level commands will reach the drive.
    – N0rbert
    Dec 1, 2021 at 15:07
  • If this 1TB SSD is where / is mounted, then ChanganAuto is correct in stating it is not possible. If this device is an auxiliary used for non / or /home purposes, then you can pass it through to the VM with the understanding that doing so will make the device unavailable to the host OS. Be sure to properly unmount the device beforehand.
    – matigo
    Dec 1, 2021 at 15:11
  • It is not my primary partition. I don't need it in my host OS so it's no problem if it is unavailable. @N0rbert I think this will not work because low-level commands won't be passed through.
    – zomega
    Dec 2, 2021 at 12:54

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