virtualbox install

[Rick Bowers]

At 1/18/2009 06:11 AM, you wrote:
>On Sunday 18 January 2009, Keith Antoine wrote:
> > 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.
> >

I don't know the answer, but I have two observations:

1- You state "...there is no support for ACHI in windows before 
windows vista; Windows XP (even SP2)..."
and then say "My dual boot has Windows XP SP3 and loads onto my SATA 
drives without any additional drivers..."

Terence also mentions Windows XP SP3

So, perhaps Windows XP SP3 has the appropriate support?

2- My current PC shipped with an SATA drive and Windows Vista.  I 
tried to "upgrade" it by installing Windows XP. XP would not see the 
drive so I couldn't install it. NOW I understand why.

~Rick 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/linux-users/attachments/20090118/c80a4e44/attachment-0002.html