
With the changes only happening on the second line. With the VM shutdown, edit xml settings, changing the disk image info from (if you're worried about potential loss of data, borking a working vm, or other world ending scenarios, make a backup before doing this, and proceed at your own risk.) The result is the OS slows over time and disk images bloat.
Issue: QEMU disks in osx are presented to the OS in a manner which interprets them as a rotational disk, as shown under About This Mac>System Report>SATA/SATA EXPRESS.Įven after forcing trim on all disks via terminal, trim does not work, or even show it as an option. Had a few more minutes today and found it on the Internet ( ) We’ve discussed TRIM Enabler before for OS X 10.6.7, but now that it has been updated to support OS X 10.6.8 and OS X 10.7.2 it’s well worth mentioning again, particularly if you don’t have a Lion supported Apple SSD.ĭo you use TRIM Enabler with Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks? How does it work for you? Let us know in the comments.I've been looking off and on about how to enable trim support on a disk image in osx. (Slider button and status text does not update properly on patch/unpatch, that is why there is a Update button, press it 3 seconds after you have activated or deactivated the switch to properly update status)
Use Kexthelper app to install that kext back to your system. Open BaseSystem in Finder, navigate to System/Library/Extensions/IOAHCIFamily.kext. Navigate to BaseSystem.dmg (it is hidden, so you will need to set Finder to show hidden files), open/mount it. Type in terminal: diskutil mount ‘Recovery HD’. If you have patched in Lion with previous Trim Enabler (1.1 or 1.2, not the 2.0 Beta 1) then I suggest you proceed with following steps to update your driver to the latest version: While on the topic of the older version of TRIM Enabler, the developer cautions that if you patched Lion with a previous version (1.1 or 1.2) then you should do the following: Note: Remembering that this is unsupported by Apple, it’d be wise to backup your Mac drive before proceeding (do a quick manual backup with Time Machine) to protect yourself in the event something goes wrong. Disabling TRIM is just a matter of flicking the switch off. Download TRIMEnabler now from the developer CindoriĮnabling TRIM on a third party SSD is made very easy with this utility, launch the app and flick the switch to “ON” and enter your administrator password to patch the SSD driver to include support for TRIM. The newest version of the utility works by patching a kernel extension, and also includes some SMART data to check the health of the SSD drive. Fortunately with a free tool called TRIM Enabler, TRIM support can be added to all SSD’s running Mac OS X 10.7.2 and 10.6.8 or later.