I assume you mean SD and Dir in a VM. I have been using Bacula in a 
qemu-kvm guest for some time now. Dir and database run beautifully in a 
VM. SD is a bit trickier. SD works well with disk storage. All works as 
expected even with USB disk, but only at USB 1 speeds. That is only due 
to qemu-kvm not having EHCI (USB 2.0) device emulation, however I hear 
that is forthcoming. The problem lies in using SCSI or SAS tape drives. 
Passing particular SCSI or SATA/SAS devices through to the VM is 
accomplished by passing through the PCI / PCIe controller hardware, 
rather than the drive itself. Setting up qemu-kvm to attach anything 
other than disk storage devices to the VM is more complex, and I'm not 
sure it would make it any easier. I've never tried with VMWare or 
VirtualBox, though.

On 8/30/2010 10:50 AM, Dan Langille wrote:
> This just came up on IRC.  As an aid to newcomers, a ready-made VM may
> be useful. A potential user could download and run the VM, without
> having to go through the install process.
>
> If you use VMs (eg VMWare, VirtualBox), then I think this would be a
> great way for you to contribute to the project. And help to lower the
> barrier to entry. Sometimes, the hardest step can be installation and
> just getting it running.
>
> :)
>

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