virtualbox install

[David A. Bandel]

This whole thread has been highly confusing because you folks aren't
differentiating between SATA/AHCI host and SATA/AHCI target.

The documentation is talking about the target being able to or not use
SATA.  You may or may not even have the option.  On my system, I do,
but do not have Windoze to install but would rather bet the folks
writing the VirtualBox software have a clue.

I have SATA drives on one host system, but chose IDE for the target
(actually that was from an install when only IDE was available on the
target).  Why not?  What's the difference?  The docs say SATA, even in
software, is faster than IDE.  OK, I'll buy that.  I haven't timed it
nor do I plan to.  In the future if SATA is available for the target,
I'll use it.  (Besides, I have no IDE drives on any of my host systems
anymore except one or two DVD drives.)

Now, if you're not using VDI, but using actual host access to an
actual host partition, I can't help you, but the docs I read implied
they were only talking about a fresh install of Windoze XP onto a .vdi
SATA virtual device.  I may be wrong, but the above discussion has
sure been confusing to me.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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