On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:12, Nick Lord<[email protected]> wrote: > Section 5.1 of the VirtualBox User Manual, "Hard disk controllers: IDE, > SATA (AHCI), SCSI", contains the following warning: > > Warning: The entire SATA controller and the virtual disks attached to it > (including those in IDE compatibility mode) will only seen by operating > systems that have device support for AHCI. In particular, there is no > support for AHCI in Windows before Windows Vista; Windows XP (even SP2) > will not see such disks unless you install additional drivers. We > therefore do not recommend installing operating systems on SATA disks at > this time. > > I don't know if this still applies. If so you may not get any advantage > from using SATA in XP under VirtualBox. > > However, if you want to try anyway, this article > > http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/how-to-enable-ahci-windows-xp/#more-231 > > says that you don't have to re-install XP to enable AHCI. > > I haven't actually done any of this, so I can't guarantee success. Just > trying to be helpful ;-)
Yeah, I forgot to point that you need a Intel driver to use SATA :) But yeah, all my VMs use SATA and I've no problem with any of them. > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 08:46 -0300, Antonio Augusto (Mancha) wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 08:31, Louis<[email protected]> wrote: >> > Dear all, >> > >> > After upgrading to Virtualbox V3.0 recently (Ubuntu 9.04 64bit host, XP Pro >> > 32bit as guest), I noticed that there is now support for SATA controller. I >> > was wondering if there is any advantage (improvement in performance?) in >> > configuring hard disks using SATA controller for my XP guest (even if it >> > requires a full reinstall of the guest OS)? >> > >> > For your information, the host system is using SATA hard disks. >> >> SATA disk is available in VirtualBox for a long time (since 2.0 if >> memory serves me well). >> And yeah, you get better performance using it in place of IDE, because >> the way SATA works. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> vbox-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
