virtualbox install

[Keith Antoine]

I have installed VirtualBox latest iteration but saw something in the user 
manual that has me wondering. I have a totally SATA drive machine and the
user manual said:

The entire SATA controller and virtual disks attached to it (including those 
in IDE compatability mode) willonly be seen by operating systems that have the 
device support for ACHI>. In particular, there is no support for ACHI in 
windows before windows vista; Windows XP (even SP2) will not see such disks 
unless you install additional drivers. We therfore do not recommend installing 
operating systems on SATA disks st this time.

My dual boot has Windows XP SP3 and loads onto my SATA drives without any 
additional drivers, they could be in PATA mode but I am not sure, without 
looking at the bios, and I would lose this if i did. So has anyone else loaded 
XP as a guest system on sata drives, no ide's in the machine.

Sorry no sig block as yet.

Keith Antoine (Skippy)