virtualbox install

[Ben Duncan]

I have SLACK 12.1 and VMWARE 2.05 on 2 machines, both SATA based machines with
no problems on SATA drives on windows VM.

Not SURE how VB differs from VMware, but the Drives are reported as standard drives.

As we speak, am installing VB on 1 Dual Core Slack 12.2 Laptop and COULD
not in hell get Vmware to work (kernel version 2.6.27.7). After install libcap
Vbox has install without a hitch and am now installing Windows Xp SP2 on it.

As far As I know the laptop has a SATA drive in it.

Guess I post further when i get done ...

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.
> 
> Sorry no sig block as yet.
> 
> Keith Antoine (Skippy)
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